Delete and insert operations in Voronoi/Delaunay methods and applications

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 523-530

  Mostafavi, Mir Abolfazl ^a   Gold, Christopher ^b   Dakowicz, Maciej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Delaunay triangulation; Deletion; Insertion; Voronoi

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; TOPOLOGY; TRIANGULATION;

VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTERS;

ALGORITHM; TRIANGULATION;

EID: 0037850963     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(03)00017-7     Document Type: Article

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