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The paper presents a brief survey of the available methods of automatic triangulation of two-dimensional regions. A technique proposed for nonhomogeneous regions of complex structure ensures compact representation of the input data and generates nearly uniform triangular meshes. This technique is applied to an example.
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Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 61, pp. 74–83, 1987.
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Yushchuk, L.I. Automatic triangulation of plane regions of complex logical structure for solution of boundary-value problems by the finite-element method. J Math Sci 63, 465–470 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01849532
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01849532