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Triangulated Irregular Network Triangulated irregular network (TIN) is a digital data structure used in a geographic information system (GIS) for the representation of a surface. A TIN is a vector based representation of the physical land surface or sea bottom, made up of irregularly distributed nodes and lines with three dimensional coordinates (x, y, and z) that are arranged in a network of non-overlapping triangles. TINs are often derived from the elevation data of a rasterized digital elevation model (DEM). Comparison of TIN with DEM. Points of a TIN are distributed variably based on an a