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Drawing Voronoi diagrams with graphics hardware is a very easy and fast way of obtaining images of several types of Voronoi diagrams. Although graphics hardware is a good tool for making such images, its drawing speed is not so high as we expect when we draw it only using naive algorithms. This paper describes a technique for accelerating the drawing speed by reducing some polygons we do not need to draw. We focus on the algorithm for normal two-dimensional Euclidean Voronoi diagrams and segment Voronoi diagrams.
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Yamamoto, O. (2005). An Acceleration Technique for the Computation of Voronoi Diagrams Using Graphics Hardware. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005. ICCSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424758_81
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