CVT_MOVIE5
Animated CVT Algorithm


CVT_MOVIE5 is a MATLAB program which animates the generation of a Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT) dataset.

This particular computation occurs in the same region of interesting shape that was used for CVT_MOVIE3. However, in this case, there are three important differences:

The goal of the calculation was to modify the CVT iteration so that generators would be produced on the boundary of the region, and in a fairly natural way. The calculation was done by CVT_MOVIE5_DATA, and the results stored in 101 text files.

The CVT_MOVIE5 program illustrates the result of the calculation by reading in the data files, drawing the Voronoi diagram and the region boundary, and creating a series of JPG files, each containing one frame of the animation. It is possible to create an animation by using software such as Apple QuickTime.

Animation:

One version of a sample animation file is stored in the MPEG-4 format. You can see the MP4 animation.

Licensing:

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

Languages:

CVT_MOVIE5 is available in a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

CVT_CIRCLE_UNIFORM, a MATLAB program which calculates a Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT) over a circle with uniform density.

CVTP_1D, a MATLAB program which estimates a periodic centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVTP) in the periodic interval [0,1], using a version of Lloyd's iteration.

FILE_NAME_SEQUENCE, a MATLAB program which demonstrates four ways to generate a sequence of filenames.

PEAK_MOVIE, a MATLAB program which creates the pieces of an animation, one frame at a time. Each frame is independently created and saved as a JPEG 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. Qiang Du, Vance Faber and Max Gunzburger,
    Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations: Applications and Algorithms,
    SIAM Review, Volume 41, 1999, pages 637-676.

Source Code:

Data and Tests:

You can go up one level to the MATLAB source codes.


Last revised on 31 August 2005.