Saturday, August 03, 2019

[jklvnylr] Voronoi cells of distinct shapes

What conditions on the locations of cell centers (and the global boundary, if any) guarantee that the corresponding Voronoi cells are all different shapes?

When creating a jigsaw puzzle, we want distinct shapes so that the puzzle has a unique solution.  Voronoi cells are nicely shaped.  However, note that in general, distinct shapes do not guarantee a unique solution: for example, consider a 1xN rectangle composed of 1x(M_i) pieces, where the M's differ but sum to N.

Harder: an infinite sequence of points such that stopping the sequence at any point yields a Voronoi partition of cells of all different shapes.

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