<s>
The	O
jump	B-Protocol
flooding	I-Protocol
algorithm	I-Protocol
(	O
JFA	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
flooding	B-Protocol
algorithm	I-Protocol
used	O
in	O
the	O
construction	O
of	O
Voronoi	B-Architecture
diagrams	I-Architecture
and	O
distance	B-Algorithm
transforms	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
JFA	O
has	O
desirable	O
attributes	O
in	O
GPU	B-Architecture
computation	O
,	O
notably	O
constant-time	O
performance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
jump	B-Protocol
flooding	I-Protocol
algorithm	I-Protocol
and	O
its	O
variants	O
may	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
calculating	O
Voronoi	B-Architecture
maps	I-Architecture
and	O
centroidal	B-Application
Voronoi	I-Application
tessellations	I-Application
(	O
CVT	O
)	O
,	O
generating	O
distance	B-Algorithm
fields	I-Algorithm
,	O
point-cloud	B-Algorithm
rendering	O
,	O
feature	O
matching	O
,	O
the	O
computation	O
of	O
power	B-Application
diagrams	I-Application
,	O
and	O
soft	O
shadow	O
rendering	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
computer	B-Application
vision	I-Application
domain	O
,	O
the	O
JFA	O
has	O
inspired	O
new	O
belief	O
propagation	O
algorithms	O
to	O
accelerate	O
the	O
solution	O
of	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
problems	O
.	O
</s>
