Relative neighborhood graph

The relative neighborhood graph of 100 random points in a unit square.

In computational geometry, the relative neighborhood graph (RNG) is an undirected graph defined on a set of points in the Euclidean plane by connecting two points and by an edge whenever there does not exist a third point that is closer to both and than they are to each other. This graph was proposed by Godfried Toussaint in 1980 as a way of defining a structure from a set of points that would match human perceptions of the shape of the set.[1][2]

  1. ^ Toussaint, G. T. (1980), "The relative neighborhood graph of a finite planar set", Pattern Recognition, 12 (4): 261–268, doi:10.1016/0031-3203(80)90066-7.
  2. ^ Jaromczyk, J.W.; Toussaint, G.T. (1992), "Relative neighborhood graphs and their relatives", Proceedings of the IEEE, 80 (9): 1502–1517, doi:10.1109/5.163414.