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- From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
- Subject: Re: Triangulation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.132209.8664@sophia.smith.edu>
- Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
- References: <1992Jul27.064833.19391@dutrun2.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:22:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.064833.19391@dutrun2.tudelft.nl> rcpshdb@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (Han de Bruijn) writes:
- >Throw an arbitrary number of points at random in the plane.
- >
- >Does there exist an algorithm that _triangulates_ such an set of points;
-
- There are many such algorithms. One especially nice triangulation
- is the Delaunay triangulation, which has the property that it
- maximizes the smallest triangle angle over all triangulations. And it
- is easy to construct to boot! See Edelsbrunner's "Algorithms in
- Combinatorial Geometry," Springer-Verlag, 1987.
-