Circle of a sphere Circle of a sphere A circle of a sphere is a circle that lies on a sphere. Such a circle can be formed as the intersection of a sphere and a plane, or of two spheres. A circle on a sphere whose plane passes through the center of the sphere is called a great circle; otherwise it is a small circle. Circles of a sphere have radius less than or equal to the sphere radius, with equality when the circle is a great circle. In the geographic coordinate system on a globe, the parallels of latitude are such circles, with
Planar straight-line graph PSLGs the primary interest is the topological properties. For some graphs, such as Delaunay triangulations, both metric and topological properties are of importance. Planar straight-line graph In computational geometry, a planar straight-line graph, in short "PSLG", (or "straight-line plane graph", or "plane straight-line graph") is a term used for an embedding of a planar graph in the plane such that its edges are mapped into straight line segments. Fáry's theorem (1948) states that every planar graph has this kind of embedding. In computational geometry, PSLGs have often been called planar subdivisions, with an assumption or assertion that subdivisions are polygonal.