Voronoi Diagrams for Planar Shapes

  • Authors:
  • Jin J. Chou

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Algorithms computing the Voronoi diagrams for polygons abound in literature; however, few practical algorithms are available to date for shapes bounded by arbitrary closed curves. This paper presents some properties for the diagrams and an algorithm to compute the diagrams for simply connected planar shapes. The algorithm traces the diagram out directly, starting from a few points. During the tracing, extraneous portions of prior traces are trimmed. When all the start points are traced, the diagram is complete. The tracing is based on the differential properties of the diagrams and can be done as accurately as desired without explicitly discretizing the curves.