A Voronoi diagram is a simple concept based on the minimal distance needed to reach a point of interest. It is named after the Russian mathematician Gregory Voronoi (1868 – 1908). Boris Delaunay, a ...

Predicting the cholera outbreak with the Voronoi diagram. A famous use of the Voronoi diagram was during the cholera outbreak in 1854 in Soho, London. Health authorities asserted that the spread was ...