A cool application of JTS Voronoi diagrams

I just noticed this series of posts by Stephen Mather on generating medial axes of polygons by creating Voronoi diagrams on the densified linework. 


If I read correctly, he's doing this via Python GeoScript, which uses JTS for the heavy lifting.

As he says, this is a venerable technique ( hack) for creating medial axis approximations.  Regardless of its computational soundness (and hey, whatever works), it's a great example of using a series of complex geometric operations to compute a useful result.

I'll have to try this in JEQL....

(Stephen seems to have moved on to implementing the Scale Axis Transform in PGSQL - very impressive!)