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In geometry, space partitioning is the process of dividing an entire space (usually a Euclidean space) into two or more disjoint subsets (see also partition of a set). In other words, space partitioning divides a space into non-overlapping regions. Any point in the space can then be identified to lie in exactly one of the regions.
Partitions of a 4-element set ordered by refinement. A partition α of a set X is a refinement of a partition ρ of X—and we say that α is finer than ρ and that ρ is coarser than α—if every element of α is a subset of some element of ρ. Informally, this means that α is a further fragmentation of ρ. In that case, it is written that ...
Let be a metric space with distance function .Let be a set of indices and let () be a tuple (indexed collection) of nonempty subsets (the sites) in the space .The Voronoi cell, or Voronoi region, , associated with the site is the set of all points in whose distance to is not greater than their distance to the other sites , where is any index different from .
Polygon partitioning is an important class of problems in computational geometry. There are many different polygon partition problems, depending on the type of polygon being partitioned and on the types of units allowed in the partition. The term polygon decomposition is often used as a general term that includes both polygon covering and ...
Among the 22 partitions of the number 8, there are 6 that contain only odd parts: 7 + 1; 5 + 3; 5 + 1 + 1 + 1; 3 + 3 + 1 + 1; 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1; 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1; Alternatively, we could count partitions in which no number occurs more than once. Such a partition is called a partition with distinct parts. If we count the ...
Binary space partitioning arose from computer graphics needing to rapidly draw three-dimensional scenes composed of polygons. A simple way to draw such scenes is the painter's algorithm , which produces polygons in order of distance from the viewer, back to front, painting over the background and previous polygons with each closer object.
In geometry, the convex hull, convex envelope or convex closure [1] of a shape is the smallest convex set that contains it. The convex hull may be defined either as the intersection of all convex sets containing a given subset of a Euclidean space , or equivalently as the set of all convex combinations of points in the subset.
Each node in an octree subdivides the space it represents into eight octants.In a point region (PR) octree, the node stores an explicit three-dimensional point, which is the "center" of the subdivision for that node; the point defines one of the corners for each of the eight children.