creation of polygons from points

[James Darrell McCauley]

Sue Tewalt (tewalt at ncrds.er.usgs.gov) writes on 27 September 1995:
>Someone posed a question to me about delineating polygons around
>points (sites), sort of splitting the distance between points to create
>a "polygon of influence" of each site. The sites are unequally distributed.

I believe that the term that you are looking for is "voronoi diagram." 
This may be found using the GEOM package:
  ftp://moon.cecer.army.mil/grass/incoming/geom.tar.Z

Darrell

P.S. avoid temptation and do not use s.voronoi in src.contrib.
     It has a bug which I do not care to fix (GEOM is much
     more extensive).
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