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We introduce a numerical framework that enables unprecedented direct numerical studies of the electropermeabilization effects of a cell aggregate at the meso-scale. Our simulations qualitatively replicate the shadowing effect observed in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Pouria Mistani , Arthur Guittet , Clair Poignard , Frederic Gibou

Cellular structures found in nature exhibit remarkable properties such as high strength, high energy absorption, excellent thermal/acoustic insulation, and fluid transfusion. Many of these structures are Voronoi-like; therefore researchers…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Krishnan Suresh , Aaditya Chandrasekhar

Computing offsets of curves on parametric surfaces is a fundamental yet challenging operation in computer aided design and manufacturing. Traditional analytical approaches suffer from time-consuming geodesic distance queries and complex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jin Zhao , Pengfei Wang , Shuangmin Chen , Jiong Guo , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

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

In distributed mobile sensing applications, networks of agents that are heterogeneous respecting both actuation as well as body and sensory footprint are often modelled by recourse to power diagrams --- generalized Voronoi diagrams with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Omur Arslan , Daniel E. Koditschek

The Voronoi diagram-based dual-front active contour models are known as a powerful and efficient way for addressing the image segmentation and domain partitioning problems. In the basic formulation of the dual-front models, the evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Da Chen , Jack Spencer , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Ke Chen , Minglei Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

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

This paper introduces a new open-source software program called VoroTop, which uses Voronoi topology to analyze local structure in atomic systems. Strengths of this approach include its abilities to analyze high-temperature systems and to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-13 Emanuel A. Lazar

A Voronoi diagram is a basic geometric structure that partitions the space into regions associated with a given set of sites, such that all points in a region are closer to the corresponding site than to all other sites. While being…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Tobias Friedrich , Maximilian Katzmann , Leon Schiller

A Voronoi diagram partitions the plane into convex cells, each containing the points closest to a single generator. Given such a tessellation, the inverse Voronoi problem seeks the generator set \( S \) that produced it. Our algorithm…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Carlos M Hernandez-Suarez

Voronoi diagrams are essential geometrical structures with numerous applications, particularly astrophysics-driven finite volume methods. While serial algorithms for constructing these entities are well-established, parallel construction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Maor Mizrachi , Barak Raveh , Elad Steinberg

Cell-based, mathematical modeling of collective cell behavior has become a prominent tool in developmental biology. Cell-based models represent individual cells as single particles or as sets of interconnected particles, and predict the…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-12 Henri B. Wolff , Lance A. Davidson , Roeland M. H. Merks

Data-driven cell tracking and segmentation methods in biomedical imaging require diverse and information-rich training data. In cases where the number of training samples is limited, synthetic computer-generated data sets can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 David Wiesner , Julian Suk , Sven Dummer , Tereza Nečasová , Vladimír Ulman , David Svoboda , Jelmer M. Wolterink

This article addresses how diverse collective behaviors arise from simple and realistic decisions made entirely at the level of each agent's personal space in the sense of the Voronoi diagram. We present a discrete time model in 2D in which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-15 Ivan Gonzalez , Jack Tisdell , Rustum Choksi , Jean-Christophe Nave

Voronoi tessellation, also known as Voronoi diagram, is an important computational geometry technique that has applications in various scientific disciplines. It involves dividing a given space into regions based on the proximity to a set…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sergei Shumilin , Alexander Ryabov , Serguei Barannikov , Evgeny Burnaev , Vladimir Vanovskii

Cell deformability is an essential determinant for tissue-scale mechanical nature, such as fluidity and rigidity, and is thus crucial for understanding tissue homeostasis and stable developmental processes. However, numerical simulations…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-08 Nen Saito , Shuji Ishihara

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

Methods allowing the synthesis of realistic cell shapes could help generate training data sets to improve cell tracking and segmentation in biomedical images. Deep generative models for cell shape synthesis require a light-weight and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 David Wiesner , Julian Suk , Sven Dummer , David Svoboda , Jelmer M. Wolterink

We describe a new algorithm for computing the Voronoi diagram of a set of $n$ points in constant-dimensional Euclidean space. The running time of our algorithm is $O(f \log n \log \Delta)$ where $f$ is the output complexity of the Voronoi…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Gary L. Miller , Donald R. Sheehy

Topological Deep Learning seeks to enhance the predictive performance of neural network models by harnessing topological structures in input data. Topological neural networks operate on spaces such as cell complexes and hypergraphs, that…