rubyvor

Efficient Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay trianglation for Ruby

Description

RubyVor provides efficient computation of Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulation for a set of Ruby points. It is intended to function as a complemenet to GeoRuby. These structures can be used to compute a nearest-neighbor graph for a set of points. This graph can in turn be used for proximity-based clustering of the input points.

Usage:

require 'lib/ruby_vor'
require 'pp'

points = [
  RubyVor::Point.new(120, 290),
  RubyVor::Point.new(110, 120),
  RubyVor::Point.new(160, 90.2),
  RubyVor::Point.new(3.14159265, 3.14159265)
]

# Compute the diagram & triangulation
comp = RubyVor::VDDT::Computation.from_points(points)

puts "The nearest-neighbor graph:"
pp comp.nn_graph

puts "\nThe minimum-spanning tree:"
pp comp.minimum_spanning_tree

# # Visualize these things as SVGs #

# Just the triangulation
RubyVor::Visualizer.make_svg(comp, :name => 'tri.svg')

# Just the MST
RubyVor::Visualizer.make_svg(comp, :name => 'mst.svg', :triangulation => false, :mst => true)

# Voronoi diagram and the triangulation
RubyVor::Visualizer.make_svg(comp, :name => 'dia.svg', :voronoi_diagram => true)

LICENSE:

Original public-domain C code (by Steven Fortune; ect.bell-labs.com/who/sjf/) and memory-management fixes for said C code (by Derek Bradley; www.derekbradley.ca) used (and released under the MIT-LICENSE) with permission.

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2008-2011 Brendan Ribera <brendan.ribera+rubyvor@gmail.com>

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