research article
Voronoi diagrams on piecewise flat surfaces and an application to biological growth
This paper introduces the notion of Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations generated by the vertices of a piecewise flat, triangulated surface. Based on properties of such structures, a generalized flip algorithm to construct the Delaunay triangulation and Voronoi diagram is presented. An application to biological membrane growth modeling is then given. A Voronoi partition of the membrane into cells is maintained during the growth process, which is driven by the creation of new cells and by restitutive forces of the elastic membrane.
Type
research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000170245800025
Author(s)
Date Issued
2001
Published in
Volume
263
Issue
1-2
Start page
263
End page
274
Note
PRO 01.14
Editorial or Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
Written at
EPFL
Available on Infoscience
March 18, 2008
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