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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shortest paths play an important role in mathematical modeling and image processing. Usually, shortest path problems are formulated on planar graphs that consist of vertices and weighted arcs. In this context, one is interested in finding a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Christian Jung , Claudia Redenbach

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

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

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

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

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

The Medial Axis Transform (MAT) is a complete shape descriptor capable of reconstructing the geometry of the original domain. A high-quality MAT should not only facilitate high-fidelity reconstruction but also capture structural features --…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengfei Wang , Shuangmin Chen , Dongming Yan , Ying He , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

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

We present an explicit and efficient construction of additively weighted Voronoi diagrams on planar graphs. Let $G$ be a planar graph with $n$ vertices and $b$ sites that lie on a constant number of faces. We show how to preprocess $G$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Paweł Gawrychowski , Haim Kaplan , Shay Mozes , Micha Sharir , Oren Weimann

We introduce VoroFields, a hierarchical neural-field framework for approximating generalized Voronoi diagrams of finite geometric site sets in low-dimensional domains under arbitrary evaluable point-to-site distances. Instead of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Panagiotis Rigas , George Ioannakis , Ioannis Emiris

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

We introduce a novel method for acquiring boundary representations (B-Reps) of 3D CAD models which involves a two-step process: it first applies a spatial partitioning, referred to as the ``split``, followed by a ``fit`` operation to derive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yilin Liu , Jiale Chen , Shanshan Pan , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) offer broader modeling capabilities than signed distance fields (SDFs), enabling the representation of shapes with open boundaries, non-manifold structures or mixed curve and surface parts. However,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qijia Huang , Pierre Kraemer , Dominique Bechmann
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