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title: Voronoi Diagram
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A Voronoi diagram is a partitioning of a plan into regions based on distance to points in a specific subset of the plane.

The set of points (often called seeds, sites, or generators) is specified beforehand, and for each seed there is a corresponding region consisting of all points closer to that seed than any other.

Different metrics may be used and often result in different Voronoi diagrams

**Euclidean**

![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Euclidean_Voronoi_diagram.svg/382px-Euclidean_Voronoi_diagram.svg.png)

**Manhattan**

![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Manhattan_Voronoi_Diagram.svg/382px-Manhattan_Voronoi_Diagram.svg.png)



