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Science Fair Projects - Voronoi diagram |
 | | In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram, also called a Voronoi tessellation or Voronoi decomposition, named after Georgy Voronoi, also called a Dirichlet tessellation, after Lejeune Dirichlet, is special kind of decomposition of a metric space determined by distances to a specified discrete set of objects in the space, e.g., by a discrete set of points. |
 | | Voronoi diagrams are named after Russian mathematician Georgy Fedoseevich Voronoi (or Voronoy) who defined and studied the general n-dimensional case in 1908. |
 | | However in these cases the Voronoi tessellation is not guaranteed to exist (or to be a "true" tessellation), since the equidistant locus for two points may fail to be subspace of codimension 1, even in the 2-dimensional case. |
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