Construction of the Voronoi Diagram for “One Million” Generators in Single-Precision Arithmetic

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 1992, Pages 1471-1484

  Sugihara, Kokichi ^a   Iri, Masao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; TOPOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ONE MILLION GENERATORS; SINGLE PRECISION ARITHMETIC; TOPOLOGICAL INCONSISTENCY; VORONOI DIAGRAM;

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EID: 0026922858     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.163412     Document Type: Article

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