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Discrete elastica |
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| Authors: | Alfred M. Bruckstein Robert J. Holt Arun N. Netravali |
| Affiliation: | Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies , Murray Hill, New Jersey, 07974 |
| Abstract: | This paper develops a discrete approach to the design of planar curves that minimize cost functions dependent upon their shape. The curves designed by using this approach are piecewise linear with equal length segments and obey various types of endpoint constraints. |
| Keywords: | Elastica Minimum energy curves Similarity invariant splines |