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voronoi

Voronoi diagram

Syntax

Definition

Consider a set of coplanar points . For each point in the set , you can draw a boundary enclosing all the intermediate points lying closer to than to other points in the set . Such a boundary is called a Voronoi polygon, and the set of all Voronoi polygons for a given point set is called a Voronoi diagram.

Description

voronoi(x,y) plots the bounded cells of the Voronoi diagram for the points x,y. Cells that contain a point at infinity are unbounded and are not plotted.

voronoi(x,y,TRI) uses the triangulation TRI instead of computing it via delaunay.

voronoi(X,Y,options) specifies a cell array of strings to be used as options in Qhull via delaunay.

If options is [], the default delaunay options are used. If options is {''}, no options are used, not even the default.

voronoi(AX,...) plots into AX instead of gca.

voronoi(...,'LineSpec') plots the diagram with color and line style specified.

h = voronoi(...) returns, in h, handles to the line objects created.

[vx,vy] = voronoi(...) returns the finite vertices of the Voronoi edges in vx and vy so that plot(vx,vy,'-',x,y,'.') creates the Voronoi diagram.

Visualization

Use one of these methods to plot a Voronoi diagram:

Examples

Example 1. This code uses the voronoi function to plot the Voronoi diagram for 10 randomly generated points.

Example 2. This code uses the vertices of the finite Voronoi edges to plot the Voronoi diagram for the same 10 points.

Note that you can add this code to get the figure shown in Example 1.

Example 3. This code uses voronoin and patch to fill the bounded cells of the same Voronoi diagram with color.

Algorithm

If you supply no triangulation TRI, the voronoi function performs a Delaunay triangulation of the data that uses Qhull [2]. For information about Qhull, see http://www.qhull.org/. For copyright information, see http://www.qhull.org/COPYING.txtCOPYING.txt.

See Also

convhull, delaunay, LineSpec, plot, voronoin

Reference

[1]  Barber, C. B., D.P. Dobkin, and H.T. Huhdanpaa, "The Quickhull Algorithm for Convex Hulls," ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 22, No. 4, Dec. 1996, p. 469-483. Available in PDF format at http://www.acm.org/pubs/ citations/journals/toms/1996-22-4/p469-barber/.

[2]  National Science and Technology Research Center for Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures (The Geometry Center), University of Minnesota. 1993.


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