ABSTRACT

The anchor points a i , . . . ,a m partition the surface of the sphere into regions based on nearest neighbor. That is, each point is assigned to a region based on which of the anchor points is nearest to it. The bound­ aries of these regions (points that are nearest to two or more anchor points) are arcs of great circles. Such a partitioning of the sphere is known as a Voronoi de­ composition. Thus, given random anchor points, we independently color each region of the Voronoi decom­ position black or white (each with probability |).