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NAME

v.delaunay - Creates a Delaunay triangulation from an input vector map containing points or centroids.

KEYWORDS

vector, geometry, triangulation

SYNOPSIS

v.delaunay
v.delaunay help
v.delaunay [-rl] input=name output=name [--overwrite] [--verbose] [--quiet]

Flags:

-r
Use only points in current region
-l
Output triangulation as a graph (lines), not areas
--overwrite
Allow output files to overwrite existing files
--verbose
Verbose module output
--quiet
Quiet module output

Parameters:

input=name
Name of input vector map
output=name
Name for output vector map

DESCRIPTION

v.delaunay uses an existing vector points map (input) to create a Delaunay triangulation vector map (output).


Delaunay triangulation and Voronoi diagram example:


Delaunay Triangulation (left pane), Voronoi diagram (center pane), and both (right pane)

EXAMPLE

Commands used with the Spearfish dataset to create the above figure. 
  g.region n=4927250 s=4919400 w=588650 e=594850
  d.frame -c fr=one at=0,100,0,33.3333
  d.frame -c fr=two at=0,100,33.3333,66.6667
  d.frame -c fr=three at=0,100,66.6667,100

  v.delaunay -lr in=archsites out=arch_delaunay
  d.frame -s one
  d.vect arch_delaunay
  d.vect archsites color=red fcolor=red size=5 icon=basic/circle

  v.voronoi -l in=archsites out=arch_voronoi
  d.frame -s two
  d.vect arch_voronoi type=line
  d.vect archsites color=red fcolor=red size=5 icon=basic/circle

  d.frame -s three
  d.vect arch_voronoi type=line
  d.vect arch_delaunay color=blue
  d.vect archsites color=red fcolor=red size=5 icon=basic/circle

REFERENCES

Leonid Guibas and Jorge Stolfi, (1985). Primitives for the Manipulation of General Subdivisions and the Computation of Voronoi Diagrams, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol 4, No. 2, April 1985, Pages 74-123

SEE ALSO

v.voronoi, v.hull

AUTHORS

Martin Pavlovsky, Google Summer of Code 2008, Student
Paul Kelly, Mentor
Based on "dct" by Geoff Leach, Department of Computer Science, RMIT.

Last changed: $Date: 2013-03-26 14:18:02 -0700 (Tue, 26 Mar 2013) $

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