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Calclating Volumes with Voronoi polyhedra
- In 1908 Voronoi found a way of partitioning all space amongst a
collection of points using specially constructed polyhedra. Here we
refer to a collection of "atom centers" rather than "points."
- In 3D, each atom is surrounded by a unique limiting polyhedron
such that all points within an atom's polyhedron are closer to this
atom than all other atoms.
- Likewise, points equidistant from 2 atoms form planes (lines in
2D). Those equidistant from 3 atoms form lines, and those equidistant
form 4 centers form vertices.
Talk on Surfaces and Volumes /
(C) Mark Gerstein (mbg@hyper.stanford.edu) /
May 1996