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To: cuban leaf

You and me both. Perpendicular to what I kept asking myself. How can you have a perpendicular boundary when the boundary is likely a spheroid of some sort.


21 posted on 03/27/2013 9:53:03 AM PDT by Usagi_yo
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To: Usagi_yo
Search "Voronoi diagram" The basic step -- draw a line between adjacent gang centers, and construct the perpendicular bisector of that line. A standard algorithm in computer geometry, giving irregular polygons.

The problem is figuring out what the "gang center" is.

26 posted on 03/27/2013 10:16:22 AM PDT by omega4412
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To: Usagi_yo; cuban leaf

I think the writer meant “equidistant from the home base”, but couldn’t remember the word or phrase.


30 posted on 03/27/2013 10:38:09 AM PDT by Don W (There is no gun problem, there is a lack of humanity problem!)
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To: Usagi_yo

I assume you draw a line between the two locations and choose a line perpendicular to that.


38 posted on 03/27/2013 1:34:35 PM PDT by TN4Liberty (My tagline disappeared so this is my new one.)
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