The farthest line-segment Voronoi diagram shows properties surprisingly different than the farthest point Voronoi diagram: Voronoi regions may be disconnected and they are not characterized by convexhull properties. In this paper we introduce the farthest line-segment hull, a cyclic structure that relates to the farthest line-segment Voronoi diagram similarly to the way an ordinary convex hull ...

We present techniques for fast motion planning by using discrete approximations of generalized Voronoi diagrams, computed with graphics hardware. Approaches based on this diagram computation are applicable to both static and dynamic environments of fairly high complexity. We compute a discrete Voronoi diagram by rendering a three-dimensional distance mesh for each Voronoi site. The sites can be...

We generate Voronoi meshes over three dimensional domains with prescribed boundaries. Voronoi cells are clipped at one-sided domain boundaries. The seeds of Voronoi cells are generated by maximal Poisson-disk sampling. In contrast to centroidal Voronoi tessellations, our seed locations are unbiased. The exception is some bias near concave features of the boundary to ensure well-shaped cells. Th...

We investigate the higher-order Voronoi diagrams of n point sites with respect to the geodesic distance in a simple polygon with h > 0 polygonal holes and c corners. Given a set of n point sites, the korder Voronoi diagram partitions the plane into several regions such that all points in a region share the same k nearest sites. The nearest-site (first-order) geodesic Voronoi diagram has already...

A new generalized Voronoi diagram is defined on the surface of a river with unifonn flow; a point belongs to the territory of a site if and only if a boat starting from the site can reach the point faster than a boat starting from any other site. If the river runs slower than the boat, the Voronoi diagram can be obtained from the ordinary Voronoi diagram by a certain transformation, whereas if ...

The Voronoi diagram is a fundamental geometric structure that encodes proximity information. Given a set of geometric objects, called sites, their Voronoi diagram is a subdivision of the underlying space into maximal regions, such that all points within one region have the same nearest site. Problems in diverse application domains (such as VLSI CAD, robotics, facility location, etc.) demand var...

Abstract. We study in this paper a finite volume approximation of linear convection diffusion equations defined on a sphere using the spherical Voronoi meshes, in particular, the spherical centroidal Voronoi meshes. The high quality of spherical centroidal Voronoi meshes is illustrated through both theoretical analysis and computational experiments. In particular, we show that the error of the ...

G. Leibon and D. Letscher showed that for general and sufficiently dense point set its Delaunay triangulation and Voronoi diagram in Riemannian manifold exist. They also proposed an algorithm to construct them for a given set. In this paper we estimate the necessary number of points for computing the Voronoi diagram in the manifold by using sectional curvature of the manifold. Moreover, we show...

Consider a dense sampling S of the smooth boundary of a planar shape O. We show that the medial axis of the union of Voronoi balls centered at Voronoi vertices inside O has a particularly simple structure: it is the union of all Voronoi vertices inside O and the Voronoi edges connecting them. Therefore, the medial axis of the union of these inner balls can be computed more efficiently and robus...

Despite of many important applications in various disciplines from sciences and engineering, Voronoi diagram for spheres in a 3-dimensional Euclidean distance has not been studied as much as it deserves. In this paper, we present an edge-tracing algorithm to compute the Euclidean Voronoi diagram of 3-dimensional spheres in O( ) in the worst-case, where is the number of edges of Voronoi diagram ...