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The ubiquitous ellipse

The ubiquitous ellipse We discuss three different affine invariant evolution processes for smoothing planar curves. The first one is derived from ageometric heat-type flow, both the initial and the smoothed curves being differentiable. The second smoothing process is obtained from a discretization of this affine heat equation. In this case, the curves are represented by planarpolygons. The third process is based onB-spline approximations. For this process, the initial curve is a planar polygon, and the smoothed curves are differentiable and even analytic. We show that, in the limit, all three affine invariant smoothing processes collapse any initial curve into anelliptic point. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Applicandae Mathematicae Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Mathematics; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Applications of Mathematics; Partial Differential Equations; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization
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0167-8019
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1572-9036
DOI
10.1007/BF00992844
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Abstract

We discuss three different affine invariant evolution processes for smoothing planar curves. The first one is derived from ageometric heat-type flow, both the initial and the smoothed curves being differentiable. The second smoothing process is obtained from a discretization of this affine heat equation. In this case, the curves are represented by planarpolygons. The third process is based onB-spline approximations. For this process, the initial curve is a planar polygon, and the smoothed curves are differentiable and even analytic. We show that, in the limit, all three affine invariant smoothing processes collapse any initial curve into anelliptic point.

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Acta Applicandae MathematicaeSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 30, 2004

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