Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Voronoi diagram and Dealunay triangulation construction of Big Spatial Data using SpatialHadoop

Voronoi Diagram and Delaunay Triangulation

A very popular computational geometry problem is the Voronoi Diagram (VD), and its dual Delaunay Triangulation (DT). In both cases, the input is a set of points (sites). In VD, the output is a tessellation of the space into convex polygons, as one per input site, such that each polygon covers all locations that are closest to the corresponding site than any other site. In DT, the output is a triangulation, where each triangle connects three sites, such that the circumcirlce of each triangle does not contain any other sites. These two constructs are dual in a sense that each edge in the DT connects two sites that share a common edge in VD.