Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
976647 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2007 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

Poisson Voronoi diagrams are useful for modeling and describing various natural patterns and for generating random lattices. Although this particular space tessellation is intensively studied by mathematicians, in two- and three-dimensional (3D) spaces there is no exact result known for the size distribution of Voronoi cells. Motivated by the simple form of the distribution function in the 1D case, a simple and compact analytical formula is proposed for approximating the Voronoi cell's size-distribution function in the practically important 2D and 3D cases as well. Denoting the dimensionality of the space by d   (d=1,2,3d=1,2,3) the f(y)=Const*y(3d-1)/2exp(-(3d+1)y/2) compact form is suggested for the normalized cell-size distribution function. By using large-scale computer simulations the viability of the proposed distribution function is studied and critically discussed.

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