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Delaunay triangulation

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English

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A Delaunay triangulation in the plane with circumcircles shown

Etymology

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Named after Boris Delaunay for his work on this topic from 1934.

Noun

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Delaunay triangulation (countable and uncountable, plural Delaunay triangulations)

  1. (geometry, computer graphics) For a given set P of discrete points in a plane: a triangulation DT(P) such that no point in P is inside the circumcircle of any triangle in DT(P).