>>12696347I know it's not original now, but I independently discovered Voronoi diagrams when I was in elementary school. That is, without ever having heard of the concept of Voronoi diagrams before, I realized that the space closest to a given point among a set of points on a plane could be found by drawing a straight line segment between two of the points, finding the midpoint, and extending a perpendicular line from it until it intersected with another such perpendicular. The reason I was thinking about this problem was that I was a little autist who didn't like how squiggly and seemingly random national borders were, so I figured that the most "rational" system of borders would be for a country to be defined as all land closer to its national capital than to another nation's capital, producing nice straight borders that would satisfy my autistic mind.
