A polygon whose interior consists of all points in the plane which are closer to a particular lattice point than to any other. The generalization to dimensions is called a Dirichlet region, Thiessen polytope, or Voronoi cell.
Voronoi Polygon
See also
Voronoi DiagramExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Dirichlet, G. L. "Über die Reduktion der positiven quadratischen Formen mit drei unbestimmten ganzen Zahlen." J. reine angew. Math. 40, 209-227, 1850.Voronoi, G. "Recherches sur les paralléloèdres Primitives." J. reine angew. Math. 134, 198-287, 1908.Williams, R. The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure: A Source Book of Design. New York: Dover, p. 43, 1979.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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