>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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Why would such a function be named "Tesselate"? > > > On 09/12/2013 12:26 AM, Oliver Courtin wrote: > > > 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 > > -- > *Martin Feuchtwanger* [email protected] > Vancouver, BC V5N 1J6 > http://members.shaw.ca/geomatics.developer > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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