[postgis-users] ST_Tesselate

[Stephen Mather]

>From wikipedia:

A *tessellation* is the tiling of a
plane<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_%28mathematics%29>using one
or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no
gaps.

I'd say a constrained Delaunay applies  :D.


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Martin Feuchtwanger <feumar at shaw.ca> wrote:

>  Why would such a function be named "Tesselate"?
>
>
> On 09/12/2013 12:26 AM, Oliver Courtin wrote:
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>
>  Le 8 déc. 2013 à 00:23, Stephen Mather a écrit :
>
>  What does ST_Tesselate do?
>
>    Triangulation, a constrained Delaunay one.
>
> http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Triangulation_2/index.html#Section_2D_Triangulations_Constrained_Delaunay
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_Delaunay_triangulation
>
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