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sector-ize a circle

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Created on Oct 3, 2018

This example shows how to partition a circle into equal-area sectors by generating a Voronoi diagram from points sampled along the circle’s perimeter. The R code uses the `sf` package to create a buffered point as the base circle, then samples 72 evenly spaced points via `st_line_sample`. A Voronoi tessellation is computed with `st_voronoi`, clipped to the circle’s boundary using `st_intersection`, and rendered with `plot`. The technique demonstrates a geometric method for dividing a polygon into radial segments without angular math.

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