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Re:Voronoi Airports: all 54,000+ of them rendered in WebGL by brianoconnor on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:20PM (#17348032)
Nice, spherical geometry is sth. I always wanted to get into. Q: Shouldn't the lines be curved, i.e. the shortest path on a sphere is a minor arc of a great circle so shouldn't the lines in the voronoi be that as well?
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Re:Voronoi Airports: all 54,000+ of them rendered in WebGL by callumprentice on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:29PM (#17348091)
They are curved hopefully. Most of them at least - when the line of a cell is longer than a certain amount, I interpolate the lat/lngs across the line and make more segments.

Maybe it's not working?

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