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We study the problem of decomposing a volume bounded by a smooth surface into a collection of Voronoi cells. Unlike the dual problem of conforming Delaunay meshing, a principled solution to this problem for generic smooth surfaces remained…

This work concerns adaptive refinement procedures for meshes of polygonal virtual elements. Specifically, refinement procedures previously proposed by the authors for structured meshes are generalized for the challenging case of arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Daniel van Huyssteen , Felipe Lopez Rivarola , Guillermo Etse , Paul Steinmann

We consider problem of constructing purely Voronoi mesh where the union of uncut Voronoi cells approximates the planar computational domain with piecewise-smooth boundary. Smooth boundary fragments are approximated by the Voronoi edges and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-17 V. A. Garanzha , L. N. Kudryavtseva , V. O. Tsvetkova

Meshes composed of well-centered simplices have nice orthogonal dual meshes (the dual Voronoi diagram). This is useful for certain numerical algorithms that prefer such primal-dual mesh pairs. We prove that well-centered meshes also have…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-01-25 Evan VanderZee , Anil N. Hirani , Damrong Guoy , Edgar Ramos

Voronoi diagrams naturally produce convex, watertight, and topologically consistent cells, making them an appealing representation for 3D shape reconstruction. However, standard differentiable Voronoi approaches typically optimize generator…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiayin Lu , Ying Jiang , Yumeng He , Yin Yang , Chenfanfu Jiang

The computation of Voronoi Diagrams, or their dual Delauney triangulations is difficult in high dimensions. In a recent publication Polianskii and Pokorny propose an iterative randomized algorithm facilitating the approximation of Voronoi…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Alexander Sikorski , Martin Heida

We present VoroUDF, an algorithm for reconstructing high-quality triangle meshes from Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs). Our algorithm supports non-manifold geometry, sharp features, and open boundaries, without relying on error-prone…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ningna Wang , Zilong Wang , Xiana Carrera , Xiaohu Guo , Silvia Sellán

In stark contrast to the case of images, finding a concise, learnable discrete representation of 3D surfaces remains a challenge. In particular, while polygon meshes are arguably the most common surface representation used in geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nissim Maruani , Roman Klokov , Maks Ovsjanikov , Pierre Alliez , Mathieu Desbrun

Unlike other schemes that locally violate the essential stability properties of the analytic parabolic and elliptic problems, Voronoi finite volume methods (FVM) and boundary conforming Delaunay meshes provide good approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Klaus Gärtner , Lennard Kamenski

Voronoi diagrams are a fundamental geometric data structure for obtaining proximity relations. We consider collections of axis-aligned orthogonal polyhedra in two and three-dimensional space under the max-norm, which is a particularly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Christina Katsamaki

Voronoi diagrams, and their more general weighted counterpart, power diagrams, are fundamental geometric constructs with wide-ranging applications. Recently, they have gained renewed attention in mesh-based neural rendering. Despite being…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bernardo Taveira , Carl Lindström , Maryam Fatemi , Lars Hammarstrand , Fredrik Kahl

In the context of adaptive remeshing, the virtual element method provides significant advantages over the finite element method. The attractive features of the virtual element method, such as the permission of arbitrary element geometries,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Daniel van Huyssteen , Felipe Lopez Rivarola , Guillermo Etse , Paul Steinmann

Extraction of a high-fidelity 3D medial axis is a crucial operation in CAD. When dealing with a polygonal model as input, ensuring accuracy and tidiness becomes challenging due to discretization errors inherent in the mesh surface.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Pengfei Wang , Jiantao Song , Lei Wang , Shiqing Xin , Dongming Yan , Shuangmin Chen , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

CVT (Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation)-based remeshing optimizes mesh quality by leveraging the Voronoi-Delaunay framework to optimize vertex distribution and produce uniformly distributed vertices with regular triangles. Current CVT-based…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yue Fei , Jingjing Liu , Yuyou Yao , Yusheng Peng , Liping Zheng

In this paper, we propose to compute Voronoi diagrams over mesh surfaces driven by an arbitrary geodesic distance solver, assuming that the input is a triangle mesh as well as a collection of sites $P=\{p_i\}_{i=1}^m$ on the surface. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Shiqing Xin , Pengfei Wang , Rui Xu , Dongming Yan , Shuangmin Chen , Wenping Wang , Caiming Zhang , Changhe Tu

Given a countable set of points in a continuous space, Voronoi tessellation is an intuitive way of partitioning the space according to the distance to the individual points. As a powerful approach to obtain structural information, it has a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-17 Simeon Völkel , Kai Huang

Since the Voronoi diagram appears in many applications, the topic of improving its computational efficiency remains attractive. We propose a novel yet efficient method to compute Voronoi diagrams bounded by a given domain, i.e., the clipped…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yanyang Xiao , Juan Cao , Zhonggui Chen

I present a regression algorithm that provides a continuous, piecewise-smooth function approximating scattered data. It is based on composing and blending linear functions over Voronoi cells, and it scales to high dimensions. The algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shankar Prasad Sastry

We develop an all-hex meshing strategy for the interstitial space in beds of densely packed spheres that is tailored to turbulent flow simulations based on the spectral element method (SEM). The SEM achieves resolution through elevated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yu-Hsiang Lan , Paul Fischer , Elia Merzari , Misun Min

Late-interaction models such as ColBERT offer competitive performance across various retrieval tasks but require storing a dense embedding for each document token, leading to a substantial index storage overhead. Past works address this by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yash Kankanampati , Yuxuan Zong , Nadi Tomeh , Benjamin Piwowarski , Joseph Le Roux
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