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Hi - I'm not very math savvy, but this Mathematica plot caught my eye and I was hoping you could help me identify it.

Have a look at the image (sorry about the quality, it's a screen capture of a video)

I've searched the various functions and keywords found in the pictured code, but none of the results suggested anything specific to me about whatever algorithm is at work in this foamy, cellular looking plot.

+3  A: 

Looks like a Voronoi Diagram to me.

Moron
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Except for the two dots in the light-purple area (third from top left), one of which might be a video artifact, every coloured area has a single dot, and points in the field appear (both by looking at the diagram and guessing what the code means) to be coloured according to which of the dots they are closest to.

Which would make it, as @Moron has said, a Voronoi diagram.

AakashM
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True. Voronoi Diagrams can build that sort of "image".

Look for Voronoi Diagrams or Thiessen Polygons.

George
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