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We investigate Voronoi-like tessellations of bipartite quadrangulations on surfaces of arbitrary genus, by using a natural generalization of a bijection of Marcus and Schaeffer allowing to encode such structures into labeled maps with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-05-17 Grégory Miermont

We consider the Voronoi tessellation based on a homogeneous Poisson point process in $\mathbf{R}^{d}$. For a geometric characteristic of the cells (e.g. the inradius, the circumradius, the volume), we investigate the point process of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Nicolas Chenavier , Christian Robert

Nowadays, big data of digital media (including images, videos and 3D graphical models) are frequently modeled as low-dimensional manifold meshes embedded in a high-dimensional feature space. In this paper, we summarized our recent work on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Zipeng Ye , Ran Yi , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu , Ying He

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

We point out that interesting features in high energy physics data can be determined from properties of Voronoi tessellations of the relevant phase space. For illustration, we focus on the detection of kinematic "edges" in two dimensions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Dipsikha Debnath , James S. Gainer , Doojin Kim , Konstantin T. Matchev

The intersections between a spherical shell and the faces of Voronoi's polyhedrons are numerically evaluated. The nodes of these intersections are the points that share the same distances from three nuclei. The nodes are assumed to be the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Lorenzo Zaninetti

We present a new open source code for massive parallel computation of Voronoi tessellations(VT hereafter) in large data sets. The code is focused for astrophysical purposes where VT densities and neighbors are widely used. There are several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-04 Roberto E. Gonzalez

We investigate the application of volume statistics to probe the distribution of underdense regions in the large-scale structure of the Universe. This statistic measures the distortion of Eulerian volume elements relative to Lagrangian ones…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Kwan Chuen Chan , Nico Hamaus

VORO++ is a software library written in C++ for computing the Voronoi tessellation, a technique in computational geometry that is widely used for analyzing systems of particles. VORO++ was released in 2009 and is based on computing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Jiayin Lu , Emanuel A. Lazar , Chris H. Rycroft

In this article, we propose a numerical method to solve semi-discrete optimal transport problems for gigantic pointsets (108 points and more). By pushing the limits by several orders of magnitude, it opens the path to new applications in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Bruno Lévy , Nicolas Ray , Quentin Mérigot , Hugo Leclerc

We present a technique to adaptively bin sparse X-ray data using weighted Voronoi tesselations (WVTs). WVT binning is a generalisation of Cappellari & Copin's (2001) Voronoi binning algorithm, developed for integral field spectroscopy. WVT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven Diehl , Thomas S. Statler

We present a detailed description of the Voronoi Tessellation (VT) cluster finder algorithm in 2+1 dimensions, which improves on past implementations of this technique. The need for cluster finder algorithms able to produce reliable cluster…

Geometric method based on the high-order 3D Voronoi tessellation is proposed for identifying the single galaxies, pairs and triplets. This approach allows to select small galaxy groups and isolated galaxies in different environment and find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Elyiv , O. Melnyk , I. Vavilova

Voronoi tessellations of Poisson point processes are widely used for modeling many types of physical and biological systems. In this paper, we analyze simulated Poisson-Voronoi structures containing a total of 250,000,000 cells to provide…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 Emanuel A. Lazar , Jeremy K. Mason , Robert D. MacPherson , David J. Srolovitz

Ionising feedback from massive stars dramatically affects the interstellar medium local to star forming regions. Numerical simulations are now starting to include enough complexity to produce morphologies and gas properties that are not too…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 D. A. Hubber , B. Ercolano , J. Dale

A novel algorithm to detect coherent structures with sparse Lagrangian particle tracking data, using Voronoi tessellation and techniques from spectral graph theory, is tested. Neighbouring tracer particles are naturally identified through…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-29 F. A. C. Martins , D. E. Rival

A multiresolution technique on tessellation graphs for particle dynamics is proposed. This allows to split spatial field data given on millions of discrete particle positions into scale-dependent contributions. The Delaunay tessellation is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-20 Keigo Matsuda , Thibault Maurel-Oujia , Kai Schneider

The traditional approach to mobile phone positioning is based on the assumption that the geographical location of a cell tower recorded in a call details record (CDR) is a proxy for a device's location. A Voronoi tessellation is then…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-04 Aleksey Ogulenko , Itzhak Benenson , Itzhak Omer , Barak Alon

We use a simple fragmentation model to describe the statistical behavior of the Voronoi cell patterns generated by a set of points in 1D and in 2D. In particular, we are interested in the distribution of sizes of these Voronoi cells. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-30 Diego Luis Gonzalez Cabrera , T. L. Einstein

Probabilistic circuits (PCs) enable exact and tractable inference but employ data independent mixture weights that limit their ability to capture local geometry of the data manifold. We propose Voronoi tessellations (VT) as a natural way to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sahil Sidheekh , Sriraam Natarajan