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unusual facts about Bowyer–Watson algorithm


Adrian Bowyer

Whilst working in the Mathematics Department he invented (at the same time as David Watson) the algorithm for computing Voronoi diagrams that bears their names (the Bowyer–Watson algorithm).


2013 Federated Auto Parts 400

Many in the garage suspected that Bowyer had spun out in an attempt to manipulate the outcome of the race so that teammate Truex would gain a Chase spot, in an incident dubbed the Singapore Sling, after the 2008 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix Formula One race, where Nelson Piquet, Jr. intentionally caused a caution to give an advantage to teammate Fernando Alonso, who would win the race.

Clint Bowyer

Bowyer made a guest appearance on an episode of A&E's Duck Dynasty in 2012 on an episode titled "Drag Me To Glory".

During the Pepsi Max 400 weekend at Fontana, Bowyer and fellow Childress driver Austin Dillon taped an episode of The Price Is Right that is scheduled to feature NASCAR-themed Showcases (a practice that occurs during a Fontana race; host Drew Carey was the Grand Marshal of the August 2008 race).

At the AdvoCare 500 at Atlanta, Bowyer clinched a Chase berth while suffering battery issues with his car.

Comic Court

He was bred by the Bowyer brothers at their Beau Neire Stud, Normanville, South Australia.

Fort Bowyer

Fort Bowyer was a short-lived earthen and stockade fortification that the United States Army erected in 1813 on Mobile Point, near the mouth of Mobile Bay in Baldwin County, Alabama.

John M. Bowyer

In 1901, Lieutenant Commander Bowyer was assigned to ordinance duty at the Washington Navy Yard.

Mitch Bouyer

Mitch Bouyer (sometimes spelled 'Bowyer', 'Buoyer', 'Boyer' or 'Buazer', or in Creole, 'Boye') (1837–June 25, 1876) was an interpreter and guide in the Old West following the American Civil War.

Moo Studios

Moo represents exclusively for film celebrity photographer/directors Ellen von Unwerth and Pamela Hanson as well as directors Shaun Sewter, Adam Byrd, Martin Fougerol, Patrick Bowyer, Andrew Huang, and Anthony Rose.

Paul Larudee

Larudee is a co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement (FGM) (along with Greta Berlin, Mary Hughes Thompson, Sharyn Lock and Renee Bowyer), which was formed in fall 2006 to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Ross Adams

Ross Adams is an English television actor originally from Newcastle upon Tyne best known for his role as Jeff Bowyer in the BBC Three sitcom The Gemma Factor alongside Anna Gilthorpe, Claire King, Gwyneth Powell and Angus Barnett.

Siobhán O'Brien

O'Brien is the niece of Brendan Bowyer of The Royal Showband and the great-greatgrandaughter of Albert Bowyer of the Bowyer/Westwood Opera Company of Blackpool, England.

Sir James Creed Meredith

The Creeds had lived near Kilmallock, at Ballygrennan Castle, since the 17th century, but Mrs Meredith's uncle, William Creed, divided up the land after his only daughter, Mrs Eliza Bowyer Bower, removed with her husband to Iwerne Minster, Dorset.


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