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3D Voronoi cell software library. Version 0.4.6 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install libvoro++1.
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Fedora dnfverified · 92%
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openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
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overview
Package summary
3D Voronoi cell software library
Project links
Commands and aliases
- voro++
history
Project history and usage
Voro++ is Chris H. Rycroft's C++ library and command-line utility for computing three-dimensional Voronoi cells. It is aimed especially at particle-system analysis, where per-cell quantities such as volume, centroid, face count, and neighbors are useful scientific measurements.
Project history
Rycroft's Voro++ technical report is dated January 15, 2009 and describes a free software library for computing three-dimensional Voronoi cells. The project grew out of research needs in physics and materials science, especially dense particle systems such as granular materials and glasses.
Unlike libraries that primarily construct a global Voronoi mesh, Voro++ uses a direct cell-by-cell construction. The project homepage emphasizes that this approach is well suited to cell-based statistics and to special boundary conditions and walls, while the report describes C++ classes that can be incorporated into other programs plus a command-line utility exposing many standard calculations.
A later 2023 paper on a multithreaded Voro++ extension summarized the original library's historical niche: released in 2009, written in C++, serial by design, and based on computing each Voronoi cell individually. That paper treated Voro++ as a baseline worth extending for modern OpenMP parallel hardware.
Adoption history
Voro++ became a recognized tool in computational geometry for physics, materials science, and particle simulations. Its adoption is tied to research workflows where the cell volume or cell shape around each particle is more important than producing a global mesh for visualization.
The project's durability comes from its simple distribution model: a C++ library, documented examples, Doxygen reference documentation, and a `voro++` command-line program that can read particle coordinate files and output cell statistics. That makes it packageable for researchers who need both an executable and embeddable code.
How it is used
The command-line utility reads particle systems from text files, computes Voronoi cells in a bounding box, and can append quantities such as Voronoi cell volume or neighbor information to output files. Options cover periodic boundaries, polydisperse particles through radical Voronoi tessellation, wall handling, and gnuplot-style output for smaller systems.
Library users embed the C++ classes directly when they need programmatic control over containers, cells, walls, and output formats. The package is commonly used where scientists need fast local cell statistics for many particles rather than a general-purpose geometric modeling framework.
Why package nerds care
Voro++ is package-nerd significant because it is a compact scientific codebase with a command-line front end, a library ABI/API surface, and old-school build assumptions. It sits in the useful middle ground between a research paper artifact and a reusable system package.
Timeline
- 2009-01-15: Chris H. Rycroft's Voro++ technical report was issued.
- 2009-12: PubMed records the Chaos article `VORO++: a three-dimensional voronoi cell library in C++`.
- 2023: A multithreaded OpenMP extension paper described Voro++ as a 2009 serial C++ library and extended it for parallel computation.
Related projects
- Qhull, CGAL, and Triangle are related computational-geometry libraries often discussed as alternatives or complements.
- gnuplot and POV-Ray appear in Voro++ examples as visualization targets for generated output.
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install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:voro++ |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.4.6 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://math.lbl.gov/voro++ |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
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Debian apt95%
libvoro++1 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1
library for the computation of the Voronoi diagram (shared library)
sudo apt install libvoro++1- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: voro++
- 3 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
Debian apt95%
voro++ 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1
library for the computation of the Voronoi diagram
sudo apt install voro++- Section: science
- Architecture: amd64
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
Debian apt95%
voro++-dev 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1
library for the computation of the Voronoi diagram (dev files)
sudo apt install voro++-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: voro++
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
Debian apt95%
voro++-examples 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1
library for the computation of the Voronoi diagram (examples)
sudo apt install voro++-examples- Section: science
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: voro++
- 1 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
Ubuntu apt95%
libvoro++1 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1
library for the computation of the Voronoi diagram (shared library)
sudo apt install libvoro++1- Section: universe/libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: voro++
- 3 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
Ubuntu apt95%
voro++ 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1
library for the computation of the Voronoi diagram
sudo apt install voro++- Section: universe/science
- Architecture: amd64
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
Ubuntu apt95%
voro++-dev 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1
library for the computation of the Voronoi diagram (dev files)
sudo apt install voro++-dev- Section: universe/libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: voro++
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
Ubuntu apt95%
voro++-examples 0.5+revert-to-0.4.6+dfsg1-1
library for the computation of the Voronoi diagram (examples)
sudo apt install voro++-examples- Section: universe/science
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: voro++
- 1 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
dnf95%
voro++ 0.4.6-34.fc45
Library for 3D computations of the Voronoi tessellation
sudo dnf install voro++- License: BSD-3-Clause-LBNL
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: voro++
- 5 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
dnf95%
voro++-devel 0.4.6-34.fc45
voro++ headers
sudo dnf install voro++-devel- License: BSD-3-Clause-LBNL
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: voro++
- 2 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
dnf95%
voro++-doc 0.4.6-34.fc45
voro++ documentation
sudo dnf install voro++-doc- License: BSD-3-Clause-LBNL
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: voro++
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
zypper95%
libvoro++0 0.4.6-4.5
Voronoi tessellation library
sudo zypper install libvoro++0- License: BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: voro++
- 5 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
zypper95%
voro++ 0.4.6-4.5
Voronoi tessellation library
sudo zypper install voro++- License: BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: voro++
- 5 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
zypper95%
voro++-devel 0.4.6-4.5
Development headers and libraries for voro++
sudo zypper install voro++-devel- License: BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: voro++
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Voro
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