Medial axis
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Medial axis
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The medial axis of an object is the set of all points having more than one closest point on the object's boundary. Originally referred to as the topological skeleton, it was introduced in 1967 by Harry Blum as a tool for biological shape recognition. In mathematics the closure of the medial axis is known as the cut locus. In 2D, the medial axis of a subset S which is bounded by planar curve C is the locus of the centers of circles that are tangent to curve C in two or more points, where all such
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Points with more than one closest boundary point
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial_axis
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2024-04-22T00:15:52Z
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