Abstract

Given an anisotropic Voronoi diagram, we address the fundamental question of when its dual is embedded. We show that, by requiring only that the primal be orphan-free (have connected Voronoi regions), its dual is always guaranteed to be an embedded triangulation. Further, the primal diagram and its dual have properties that parallel those of ordinary Voronoi diagrams: the primal's vertices, edges, and faces are connected, and the dual triangulation has a simple, closed boundary. Additionally, if the underlying metric has bounded anisotropy (ratio of eigenvalues), the dual is guaranteed to triangulate the convex hull of the sites. These results apply to the duals of anisotropic Voronoi diagrams of any set of sites, so long as their Voronoi diagram is orphan-free. By combining this general result with existing conditions for obtaining orphan-free anisotropic Voronoi diagrams, a simple and natural condition for a set of sites to form an embedded anisotropic Delaunay triangulation follows.

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