September 10, 2009

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Here’s a great post about Voronoi diagrams: what they are, why they’re cool, and how to draw them. sevensixfive writes: “they can be used to describe almost literally everything: from cell phone networks to radiolaria, at every scale: from quantum foam to cosmic foam.”

After you have drawn your own Voronoi diagram by hand, perhaps you will enjoy this rad Voronoi diagram animation made with Processing.

You know what Voronoi diagrams always really remind me of? Skin! But also, I suppose, leaves.