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Delaunay

Triangulation

atechniqueforcreatingamesh
ofcontiguous,nonoverlapping
trianglesfromadatasetofpoints

BorisNikolaevichDelaunay

TriangulatedIrregularNetwork

ATINsurfaceisagoodwaytorepresentsurfacemorphology.

Itisavectorbasedmodelconstructedbytriangulatingasetof points.

Terrainismodeledasalargenetworkofconnectingnonoverlappingtriangles
TINinArc

IninitialcreationallpointsneedtohaveaX,Y,Z
value
CREATETINcommandgeneratesaTINfrom
ARC/INFOcoverages,ASCIIfiles,SamplePoints,
DEMRastersusingtheDelaunayMethod(specific
algorithms)
Breaklinefeaturesinfluencetriangulation(hard,soft,fault)
COVER,GENERATE,LATTICEareallmethodsofhowTINZ
valuesareinterpreted.

WheretoStart?

DelaunayTriangulationisusedtocreateaTINsurfacefromacollectionofpoints

Thegeometriccenterofthedatapoints(elfick1979)

Theshortestofallpossiblelinesbetweenanytwo
datapoints(yeoli1977)

Alinesegmentontheimaginaryboundary
(McCullaghandRoss1980)

Alinesegmentontheboundaryconvexhull
(Tsai1993Gosper1998)

Choosingastartingpointandasearchprinciple(todetermineothertriangles)
isspecifiedthetriangulationisrelativelyeasy.
WheretogoNext?

BowyerWatsonAlgorithmforDynamic
Triangulation
triangulationbygraduallyaddingmorepoints,simple
incrementalalgorithm
startswithlargecoursetrianglesandcontinuallyaddpoints/
breaklines
aftereachadditionalpointisaddedthetriangleischeckedto
makesureitmeetsDelaunaycriteria
ifNOTitusesEdgeSwapping

CriteriaandConstraints

Novertexlieswithintheinteriorofanyofthecircumcircles ofthe
trianglesinthenetwork.

Theminimuminteriorangleofalltrianglesismaximized,andthe
maximumminimized.Trianglesareasequiangularaspossible.

Theresultisthatlong,thintrianglesareavoidedasmuchas possible.
Circumcircles

Circumcircleisthecenterofapolygonthatpassesthroughall verticesofapolygon.

ForasetPofpointsintheplaneisa
triangulationDT(P)sothatnopoint
inPisinsidethecircumcircleofan
triangleinDT(P)
mathworks.com

DelaunayandVeronoi

Connectedvertices Connectedcircumcircles
Angles

Theminimuminteriorangleofalltrianglesismaximized.
Themaximuminteriorangleofalltrianglesinminimized.

WhichimagesatisfiestheDelaunayCrietria?

AdvantagesToTIN

AnadvantageofDelaunaytriangulationisindependentoftheorder
thepointsareprocessed. Allowsforediting

Becausenodescanbeplacedirregularlyoverasurface,TINscan
haveahigherresolutioninareaswhereasurfaceishighlyvariable
orwheremoredetailisdesiredandalowerresolutioninareasthat
arelessvariable.
HighResolution

TheinputfeaturesusedtocreateaTINremaininthesameposition
asthenodesoredgesintheTIN.ThisallowsaTINtopreserveall
theprecisionoftheinputdatawhilesimultaneouslymodelingthe
valuesbetweenknownpoints.Youcanincludepreciselylocated
featuresonasurfacesuchasmountainpeaks,roads,and
streamsbyusingthemasinputfeaturestotheTINnodes.
ESRISupport

PreciseLocation
DisadvantagesandApplication

TINmodelsarelesswidelyavailablethanrastersurfacemodelsandaremoretime
consumingtoconstructandprocessitisahighlycomplexdatastructure.

Typicallyusedforhighprecisionmodelingofsmallareas

TINAspect DerivesaspectfromaTIN
TINContour CreatesIsolines
TINSlope Derivesslope
TINDifference CalculatesvolumetricdifferencesinaTIN
TINPolygonVolume Calculatesthevolumetricandsurfacearea
betweenpolygonsofaninputfeatureclassandTINsurface

References

About3Dsurfaceshttp://webhelp.esri.com/

Delaunaytriangulation,www.mathworks.com

Li,Z.,Zhu,Q,andGold,C.2004.DigitalTerrain
Modeling:PrinciplesandMethodology.CRCPress.

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