Möbius-invariant curve and surface energies and their applications

Note on curve and surface energies

Energies of curves and surfaces together with their discrete variants play a prominent role as fairness functionals in geometric modeling and computer aided geometric design. This paper deals with a particular discrete surface energy which is expressible in terms of curve energies, and which occurs naturally in the problem of smoothing digital elevation data with tolerance zone constraints. We ...

Geometric Invariant Curve and Surface Normalization

In this work, a geometric invariant curve and surface normalization method is presented. Translation, scale and shear are normalized by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) whitening. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and the third order moments are then employed for rotation and reflection normalization. By applying this normalization, curves and surfaces that are related by geometric transfo...

Möbius-invariant natural neighbor interpolation

Order-Invariant Types and Their Applications

Our goal is to show that the standard model-theoretic concept of types can be applied in the study of order-invariant properties, i.e., properties definable in a logic in the presence of an auxiliary order relation, but not actually dependent on that order relation. This is somewhat surprising since order-invariant properties are more of a combinatorial rather than a logical object. We provide ...

Magentotactic bacteria and their applications

Magentotactic bacteria are the types of bacteria capable of orientation in an external magnetic field because of the ability to produce structures called magnetosomes. Magnetosomes, nanometer-scale structures, are present in most of the magnetotactice bacteria. They are intracellular organelles composed of magnetic iron mineral crystals individually surrounded by a phospholipid layer. Because o...