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Irregular arrangements of vesicles filled with excitable and precipitating chemical systems are imitated by Voronoi automata --- finite-state machines defined on a planar Voronoi diagram. Every Voronoi cell takes four states: resting,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Andrew Adamatzky , Ben de Lacy Costello , Julian Holley , Jerzy Gorecki , Larry Bull

We introduce a new class of spatial-temporal point processes based on Voronoi tessellations. At each step of such a process, a point is chosen at random according to a distribution determined by the associated Voronoi cells. The point is…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Konstantin Borovkov , David Odell

Cellular systems are becoming more heterogeneous with the introduction of low power nodes including femtocells, relays, and distributed antennas. Unfortunately, the resulting interference environment is also becoming more complicated,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Robert W. Heath , Marios Kountouris , Tianyang Bai

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

In this paper, we present a novel workflow consisting of algebraic algorithms and data structures for fast and topologically accurate conversion of vector data models such as Boundary Representations into voxels (topological voxelization);…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Pirouz Nourian , Shervin Azadi

In this paper, we propose a novel space partitioning strategy for implicit hierarchy visualization such that the new plot not only has a tidy layout similar to the treemap, but also is flexible to data changes similar to the Voronoi…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yan-Chao Wang , Feng Lin , Hock-Soon Seah

Tuning cell rearrangements is essential in collective cell movement that underlies cancer progression, wound repair, and embryonic development. A key question is how tissue material properties and morphology emerge from cellular factors…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Soumyadipta Ray , Santidan Biswas , Dipjyoti Das

The Voronoi diagram is a certain geometric data structure which has numerous applications in various scientific and technological fields. The theory of algorithms for computing 2D Euclidean Voronoi diagrams of point sites is rich and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Daniel Reem

We present a general framework for computing two-dimensional Voronoi diagrams of different classes of sites under various distance functions. The framework is sufficiently general to support diagrams embedded on a family of two-dimensional…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Ophir Setter

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

Machine learning (ML) strategies are opening the door to faster computer simulations, allowing us to simulate more realistic colloidal systems. Since the interactions in colloidal systems are often highly many-body, stemming from e.g.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-09 Rinske M. Alkemade , Rastko Sknepnek , Frank Smallenburg , Laura Filion

Voronoi tessellations of scale-invariant fractal sets are characterized by topological and metrical properties that are significantly different from those of natural cellular structures. As an example we analyze Voronoi diagrams of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Haye Hinrichsen , Gudrun Schliecker

Mimicking natural tessellation patterns is a fascinating multi-disciplinary problem. Geometric methods aiming at reproducing such partitions on surface meshes are commonly based on the Voronoi model and its variants, and are often faced…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Rhaleb Zayer , Daniel Mlakar , Markus Steinberger , Hans-Peter Seidel

A long-standing challenge is designing multi-scale structures with good connectivity between cells while optimizing each cell to reach close to the theoretical performance limit. We propose a new method for direct multi-scale topology…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Hongrui Chen , Xingchen Liu , Levent Burak Kara

The use of numerical simulations in science is ever increasing and with it the computational size. In many cases single processors are no longer adequate and simulations are run on multiple core machines or supercomputers. One of the key…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Elad Steinberg , Almog Yalinewich , Re'em Sari , Paul Duffell

Computational technologies for the approximate solution of multidimensional boundary value problems often rely on irregular computational meshes and finite-volume approximations. In this framework, the discrete problem represents the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 M. M. Chernyshov , P. N. Vabishchevich

The simulation of many-particle systems often requires the detailed knowledge of proximity relations to reduce computational complexity and to provide a basis for specific calculations. Here we describe the basic scheme of a simulator of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessio Del Fabbro , Roberto Chignola , Edoardo Milotti

For the analysis of systems consisting of small, regular objects, the methods of mathematical morphology applied to images of these systems are well-suited. One of these methods is the use of Voronoi polygons. It was found that the Voronoi…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-05-24 M. Montserrat Alonso Ferrero

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

We derive a mesoscopic modeling and simulation technique that is very close to the technique known as dissipative particle dynamics. The model is derived from molecular dynamics by means of a systematic coarse-graining procedure. Thus the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Eirik G. Flekkoy , Peter V. Coveney , Gianni De Fabritiis