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Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation

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Take a look at this: This is a triangulation of a set of random points, such that all the points are connected to one another, all of the faces are triangles, and the edges include the convex hull of the points. I would like to claim that this is not a very “good” triangulation. This algorithm tends to produce lots of long, slivery triangles, and a really uneven distribution of edge counts across different vertices – some vertices have way more edges than they need to. Here’s a different triangulation. These are the exact same points, but I triangulated them smarter:

July 11, 2022 Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation Take a look at this: This is a triangulation of a set of random points, such that all the points are connected to one another, all of the faces are triangles, and the edges include the convex hull of the points. I would like to claim that this is not a very "good" triangulation. This algorithm tends to produce lots of long, slivery triangles, and a really uneven distribution of edge counts across different vertices - some vertices have way more edges than they need to. Here's a different triangulation. These are the exact same points, but I tria

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