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Delaunay triangulation

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  1. [3D analysis] A technique for creating a mesh of contiguous, nonoverlapping triangles from a dataset of points. Each triangle's circumscribing circle contains no points from the dataset in its interior. Delaunay triangulation is named for the Russian mathematician Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay. Media/Delaunay-triangulation.gif

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