Voronoi Diagram Investigation
Emergency Zone Crisis
The mayor of Geometry City needs your help! Four critical locations are competing for funding based on their service coverage:- Hospital (H) at
- Fire Station (F) at
- Police Station (P) at
- School (S) at
Task-1
Calculate the distances of flood point to all the locations.
Distance-1
Distance of H to flood point.
Distance-2
Distance of F to flood point.
Distance-3
Distance of P to flood point.
Distance-4
Distance of S to flood point.
Task-2
Decide the closest loaction
Closest Location is
Task-3
What if the flood center point is at ?
Closest Location from is
Question
Use the interactive applet above to drag the flood point (💧) to new positions. Find and mark 2 distinct points where the Fire Station (F) is the closest facility and Justify your choices.
Manually calculating distances for every emergency would be time-consuming and inefficient. To solve this, click the 'Hint' button in the interactive applet. This will reveal the pre-divided service regions - showing exactly which facility is closest to any point in the city!
Notice how the boundaries between regions are special lines - what do you observe about their angles and positions relative to the service points?
What are your thoughts :
Select one option
The concept used to solve the problem:
A Voronoi diagram divides a space into distinct regions (called "cells") around a set of predefined points (called "sites"). Each cell consists of all locations that are closer to its site than to any other site. The boundaries between cells are formed by perpendicular bisectors of the lines connecting neighboring sites.