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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.