TABLE_VORONOI
Voronoi Diagram Data


TABLE_VORONOI is a FORTRAN90 program which reads in a dataset describing a 2D pointset, and prints out information defining the Voronoi diagram of the pointset.

TABLE_VORONOI is based on the GEOMPACK library of Barry Joe, which computes the Delaunay triangulation. The main work that TABLE_VORONOI does is to analyze that Delaunay information and work out the location of the Voronoi vertices, and their specific arrangement around each of the original data nodes.

TABLE_VORONOI is a work in progress; the output is currently simply printed, which is not very useful except for toy problems; printed output is of very little use for big problems. To handle big, interesting problems, I have to think about how to store this information in a useful and accessible data structure.

Moreover, I haven't thought enough about how to deal with the inevitable "infinite" Voronoi cells.

The program begins with the pointset, of which a typical element is a point G. Each G generates a Voronoi polygon (or semi-infinite region, which we will persist in calling a polygon). A typical vertex of the polygon is called V. For the semi-infinite regions, we have a vertex at infinity, but it's really not helpful to store a vertex (Inf,Inf), since we have lost information about the direction from which we reach that infinite vertex. We will have to treat these special regions with a little extra care.

We are interested in computing the following quantities:

So if we have to draw a semi-infinite region, we start at infinity. We then need to draw a line from infinity to vertex #2. We do so by drawing a line in the appropriate direction, stored in I_XY. Having safely reached finite vertex #2, we can connect the finite vertices, until it is time to draw another line to infinity, this time in another direction, also stored in I_XY.

Usage:

table_voronoi file_name.xy
where

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

TABLE_VORONOI is available in a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

GEOMPACK, a FORTRAN90 library which supplies the routines used to compute the Voronoi information.

TABLE_BARPLOT_PPMA, a FORTRAN90 program which reads a table file and creates a PPMA bargraph of the data.

TABLE_BORDER, a FORTRAN90 program which can be used to add a border (of zero values) to a table file.

TABLE_COLUMNS, a FORTRAN90 program which can extract specific columns of data from a table file.

TABLE_COLUMNS_PERMUTE, a FORTRAN90 program which permutes the columns of a table file.

TABLE_DELAUNAY, a FORTRAN90 program which computes the Delaunay triangulation of a set of points.

TABLE_HISTOGRAM, a FORTRAN90 program which can make a histogram of a set of points stored in a table file.

TABLE_IO, a FORTRAN90 library which supplies the routines used to read the TABLE file.

TABLE_LATINIZE, a FORTRAN90 program which reads a file of points and creates a "latinized" version by adjusting the data.

TABLE_MERGE, a FORTRAN90 program which reads a file of points, and removes duplicates, and points that are close to each other.

TABLE_ORTHONORMALIZE, a FORTRAN90 program which reads a file of points and orthonormalizes the columns.

TABLE_QUALITY, a FORTRAN90 program which reads a file of points and computes the quality of dispersion.

TABLE_READ, a MATLAB program which can read in a TABLE file.

TABLE_RECORD_MATCH, a FORTRAN90 program which can be used to find close records in a table file.

TABLE_SCALE, a FORTRAN90 program which can be used to multiply the entries of a table file by a scale vector.

TABLE_SHIFT, a FORTRAN90 program which can be used to shift the entries of a table file by a shift vector.

TABLE_STATS, a FORTRAN90 program which can read a table file and compute certain statistics.

TABLE_TET_MESH, a FORTRAN90 program which can read a table file of 3D data, and compute a tetrahedral mesh.

TABLE_TOP, a FORTRAN90 program which can read a table file of M-dimensional data and make a table of plots of all pairs of coordinates.

TABLE_UNBORDER, a FORTRAN90 program which can be used to remove the border from a table file.

TABLE_UNIFORM_NOISE, a FORTRAN90 program which can be used to add a uniform noise term to the data in a table file.

Reference:

  1. Franz Aurenhammer,
    Voronoi diagrams - a study of a fundamental geometric data structure,
    ACM Computing Surveys,
    Volume 23, Number 3, pages 345-405, September 1991.
  2. Jacob Goodman, Joseph ORourke, editors,
    Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry,
    Second Edition,
    CRC/Chapman and Hall, 2004,
    ISBN: 1-58488-301-4,
    LC: QA167.H36.
  3. Barry Joe,
    GEOMPACK - a software package for the generation of meshes using geometric algorithms,
    Advances in Engineering Software,
    Volume 13, pages 325-331, 1991.

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Last revised on 28 December 2010.