{"id":126,"date":"2014-06-19T13:48:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T20:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/math\/?page_id=126"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:42:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T23:42:51","slug":"voronoi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/math\/links\/mathsnips\/voronoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Voronoi Diagrams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spatial Tessellations: Concepts and Applications of Voronoi Diagrams by Okabe, Boots and Sugihara, John Wiley &amp; Sons, 1992.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the bible. Definitions, properties, algorithms, generalizations and applications galore! Unfortunately, it retails for $180. The King County Library System has one copy. There are several copies scattered among academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest, which you can get on inter-library loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Computational Geometry in C by J. O&#8217;Rourke, Cambridge University Press, 1994.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Nice senior-level treatment that includes several applications and describes how Voronoi diagrams are related to minimal spanning trees and traveling salesman problems. There is a brief discussion of the &#8220;cone slicing&#8221; interpretation of Voronoi diagrams. You don&#8217;t have to know C (or any programming at all) to read this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications by de Berg, van Kreveld, Overmars and Schwarzkopf, Springer-Verlag, 1997.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>High-level undergraduate or low-level graduate textbook. Limited, but readable, description of the structure of algorithms for computing Voroni diagrams. You can download the fifteen-page chapter on Voroni diagrams from a web site devoted to this book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.uu.nl\/geobook\/\">http:\/\/www.cs.ruu.nl\/geobook\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Websites<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~eppstein\/gina\/scot.drysdale.html\">http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/%7Eeppstein\/gina\/scot.drysdale.html<\/a><br>Long list of applications. Definitions. Some variations of the basic Voronoi problem. Brief description of two algorithms for constructing Voronoi diagrams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beloit.edu\/\">http:\/\/www.beloit.edu\/~biology\/zdravko\/voronoi.html<\/a><br>The creation of Zdravko Jeremic as part of the Howard Hughes Young Scholar Program at Beloit College. A little history. Definitions. Tons of references and pointers. Jeremic&#8217;s paper on modeling animal territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Articles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Dirichlet Polygons &#8211; An Example of Geometry in Geography&#8221; by T. O&#8217;Shea, The Mathematics Teacher, March, 1986.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the only non-technical, immediately accessible journal article we could find. It contains a couple of nice, elementary applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected References Books Spatial Tessellations: Concepts and Applications of Voronoi Diagrams by Okabe, Boots and Sugihara, John Wiley &amp; Sons, 1992. This is the bible. Definitions, properties, algorithms, generalizations and applications galore! Unfortunately, it retails for $180. The King County Library System has one copy. 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