Concept information
Preferred term
medial axis
Definition
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The medial axis of an object is the set of all points having more than one closest point on the object's boundary. Originally referred to as the topological skeleton, it was introduced in 1967 by Harry Blum as a tool for biological shape recognition. In mathematics the closure of the medial axis is known as the cut locus.
(Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial_axis)
Broader concept
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/PSR-MZM2ZSX7-R
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