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Learning OpenCV 3
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Learning OpenCV 3

by Adrian Kaehler, Gary Bradski
December 2016
Beginner to intermediate
1024 pages
29h 50m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix A. Planar Subdivisions

Delaunay Triangulation, Voronoi Tesselation

Delaunay triangulation is a technique invented in 1934 [Delaunay34] for connecting points in a space into triangular groups such that the minimum angle of all the angles in the triangulation is a maximum. This means that Delaunay triangulation tries to avoid long skinny triangles when triangulating points. See Figure A-1 to get the gist of triangulation, which is done in such a way that any circle that is fit to the points at the vertices of any given triangle contains no other vertices. This is called the circum-circle property (see panel c).

Delaunay triangulation: (a) set of points; (b) Delaunay triangulation of the point set with trailers to the outer bounding triangle; (c) example circles showing the circum-circle property
Figure A-1. Delaunay triangulation: (a) set of points; (b) Delaunay triangulation of the point set with trailers to the outer bounding triangle; (c) example circles showing the circum-circle property

For computational efficiency, the Delaunay algorithm invents a faraway outer bounding triangle from which the algorithm starts. Figure A-1(b) represents the fictitious outer triangle by dotted lines going out to its vertex. Figure A-1(c) shows some examples of the circum-circle property, including one of the circles (the one at the bottom-right corner) linking two outer points of the real data to one of the vertices of the fictitious external triangle.

There are now many algorithms to compute Delaunay triangulation; some are very efficient but with difficult internal ...

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