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Computing the Voronoi diagram of mixed geometric objects in $R^3$ is challenging due to the high cost of exact geometric predicates via Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD). We propose an efficient exact verification framework that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Eunku Park

Developing accurate and efficient coarse-grained representations of proteins is crucial for understanding their folding, function, and interactions over extended timescales. Our methodology involves simulating proteins with molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-11 Carles Navarro , Maciej Majewski , Gianni de Fabritiis

Rigid body interactions are fundamental to numerous scientific disciplines, but remain challenging to simulate due to their abrupt nonlinear nature and sensitivity to complex, often unknown environmental factors. These challenges call for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Amaury Wei , Olga Fink

Vertex models represent confluent tissue by polygonal or polyhedral tilings of space, with the individual cell interacting via force laws that depend on both the geometry of the cells and the topology of the tessellation. This dependence on…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Daniel M. Sussman

Liposomes that achieve a heterogeneous and spatially organized surface through phase separation have been recognized to be a promising platform for delivery purposes. However, their design and optimization through experimentation can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-05 Y. Wang , Y. Palzhanov , A. Quaini , M. Olshanskii , S. Majd

Different cell types aggregate and sort into hierarchical architectures during the formation of animal tissues. The resulting spatial organization depends (in part) on the strength of adhesion of one cell type to itself relative to other…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-02 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Alexandria Volkening , Björn Sandstede , Ian Y. Wong

We consider the Voronoi diagram generated by $n$ i.i.d. $\mathbb{R}^{d}$-valued random variables with an arbitrary underlying probability density function $f$ on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, and analyse the asymptotic behaviours of certain geometric…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Isaac Gibbs , Linan Chen

We present a topology grounded, multiscale simulation platform for morphogenesis and biological active matter. Morphogenesis and biological active matter represent keystone problems in biology with additional, far-reaching implications…

Spatial statistical analysis of multivariate volumetric data can be challenging due to scale, complexity, and occlusion. Advances in topological segmentation, feature extraction, and statistical summarization have helped overcome the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-16 Tyson Neuroth , Martin Rieth , Konduri Aditya , Myoungkyu Lee , Jacqueline H Chen , Kwan-Liu Ma

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

We propose a data-driven interpolation method for approximating real-valued functions on smooth manifolds, based on the Laplace--Beltrami operator and Voronoi tessellations. Given pointwise evaluations, the method constructs a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Alvaro Almeida Gomez

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

We present a decentralized path-planning algorithm for navigating multiple differential-drive robots in dense environments. In contrast to prior decentralized methods, we propose a novel congestion metric-based replanning that couples local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Senthil Hariharan Arul , Dinesh Manocha

Representing a scanned map of the real environment as a topological structure is an important research topic in robotics. Since topological representations of maps save a huge amount of map storage space and online computing time, they are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Jiawei Hou , Yijun Yuan , Sören Schwertfeger

Networked systems display complex patterns of interactions between a large number of components. In physical networks, these interactions often occur along structural connections that link components in a hard-wired connection topology,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-03 Jason Kim , Jonathan M. Soffer , Ari E. Kahn , Jean M. Vettel , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

We present a method for differentiable simulation of soft articulated bodies. Our work enables the integration of differentiable physical dynamics into gradient-based pipelines. We develop a top-down matrix assembly algorithm within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yi-Ling Qiao , Junbang Liang , Vladlen Koltun , Ming C. Lin

We present careful numerical convergence studies, using parameterized curves to reach very high resolutions in two dimensions, of a level set method for multiphase curvature motion known as the Voronoi implicit interface method. Our tests…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Alexander Zaitzeff , Selim Esedoglu , Krishna Garikipati

We present an extension of Voronoi diagrams where when considering which site a client is going to use, in addition to the site distances, other site attributes are also considered (for example, prices or weights). A cell in this diagram is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Hsien-Chih Chang , Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel

This study introduces a novel point-wise diffusion model that processes spatio-temporal points independently to efficiently predict complex physical systems with shape variations. This methodological contribution lies in applying forward…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Jiyong Kim , Sunwoong Yang , Namwoo Kang

The size distributions of 2D and 3D Voronoi cells and of cells of $V_p(2,3)$,--2D cut of 3D Voronoi diagram--are explored, with the single-parameter (re-scaled) gamma distribution playing a central role in the analytical fitting.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-20 Lorenzo Zaninetti