Painting Manhattan-distance Voronoi

By far the simplest of Voronoi algorithms is to paint pixels according to the color of their closest site. Such a shader will work with any definition of distance, weighted or not. Speed is awfully slow, in O(n*x*y). The results are pixels (canvas), not an abstract layout.

See also Painting Euclidian Voronoi.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
  <style>
    body { margin:0;position:fixed;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0; }
    canvas { margin: 20px; border: solid black 2px; }
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <canvas width=600 height=400>
  <script>
        function manhattandistance(a, b) {
            var dx = b[0] - a[0],
                dy = b[1] - a[1];
            return Math.abs(dx) + Math.abs(dy);
        }

function euclideandistance(a, b) {
            var dx = b[0] - a[0],
                dy = b[1] - a[1];
            return dx*dx + dy*dy;
        }
    
        var distance = manhattandistance;

var canvas = d3.select('canvas').node(),
            context = canvas.getContext("2d"),
            width = canvas.width,
            height = canvas.height;

var sites = d3.range(400).map(function (d) {
            return [width * Math.random(), height * Math.random()];
        });

var color = d3.scaleOrdinal(d3.schemeCategory20b);

function drawsites() {
            sites.forEach(function (d, i) {
                context.lineWidth = 10;
                context.beginPath();
                context.strokeStyle = color(i);
                var x = d[0],
                    y = d[1];
                context.moveTo(x - 5, y);
                context.lineTo(x + 5, y);
                context.stroke();
                context.lineWidth = 4;
                context.beginPath();
                context.strokeStyle = '#fff';
                var x = d[0],
                    y = d[1];
                context.moveTo(x - 2, y);
                context.lineTo(x + 2, y);
                context.stroke();
            });
        }

var p = 0;
        var interval = d3.interval(function (elapsed) {
            var n = 1000;
            while (n-- > 0) {

</script>
</body>

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