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A tessellation or mosaic of the d-dimensional Euclidean space ℝd is a subdivision \(\mathbb{R}=U_iC_i\) into d-dimensional non-overlapping sets Ci. Such arrangements occur in many natural situations and depending on the situation the sets Ci might be called cells, crystals, regions, tiles, etc.
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Møller, J. (1994). Introduction and background. In: Lectures on Random Voronoi Tessellations. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 87. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2652-9_1
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