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Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Yuan Zhou , Lazaros Tsaloukidis , Jack Binysh , Yuchao Chen , Nikta Fakhri , Corentin Coulais , Piotr Surówka

In quantum geometry, we consider a set of loops, a compact orientable surface and a solid compact spatial region, all inside $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^3 \equiv \mathbb{R}^4$, which forms a triple. We want to define an ambient isotopic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Adrian P. C. Lim

Information transfer between triangle meshes is of great importance in computer graphics and geometry processing. To facilitate this process, a smooth and accurate map is typically required between the two meshes. While such maps can…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Danielle Ezuz , Justin Solomon , Mirela Ben-Chen

In the field of spatial computing, one of the most essential tasks is the pose estimation of 3D objects. While rigid transformations of arbitrary 3D objects are relatively hard to detect due to varying environment introducing factors like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Sining Huang , Yukun Song , Yixiao Kang , Chang Yu

Mathematically representing the shape of an object is a key ingredient for solving inverse rendering problems. Explicit representations like meshes are efficient to render in a differentiable fashion but have difficulties handling topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guangyan Cai , Kai Yan , Zhao Dong , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Shuang Zhao

Surfaces and curves play an important role in geometric design. In recent years, problem of finding a surface passing through a given curve has attracted much interest. In the present paper, we propose a new method to construct a surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-16 Fatma Güler , Gülnur Şaffak Atalay , Ergin Bayram , Emin Kasap

There is no settled universal 3D representation for geometry with many alternatives such as point clouds, meshes, implicit functions, and voxels to name a few. In this work, we present a new, compelling alternative for representing shapes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Nam Anh Dinh , Haochen Wang , Greg Shakhnarovich , Rana Hanocka

This paper introduces the new interactive Java sketching software KamiWaAi, recently developed at the University of Fukui. Its graphical user interface enables the user without any knowledge of both mathematics or computer science, to do…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Eckhard Hitzer

We consider the popular and classical method of alternating projections for finding a point in the intersection of two closed sets. By situating the algorithm in a metric space, equipped only with well-behaved geodesics and angles (in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Adrian S. Lewis , Genaro López-Acedo , Adriana Nicolae

The square-peg problem asks if every Jordan curve in the plane has four points which are the vertices of a square. The problem is open for continuous Jordan curves, but it has been resolved for various regularity classes of curves between…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Jason Cantarella , Elizabeth Denne , John McCleary

The square root velocity transformation provides a convenient and numerically efficient approach to functional and shape data analysis of curves. We study fundamental geometric properties of curves under this transformation. Moreover,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Esfandiar Nava-Yazdani

This paper presents an alternative approach to simplify the proofs of some important results related to polynomial mappings in Computational Algebraic Geometry such as Polynomial Implicitization, Image Closure and some properties of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-30 Yongbi Li

Utilizing recently developed abstract notions of sectional curvature, we introduce a method for constructing a curvature-based geometric profile of discrete metric spaces. The curvature concept that we use here captures the metric relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Charlotte Beylier , Parvaneh Joharinad , Jürgen Jost , Nahid Torbati

Geometric frameworks for analyzing curves are common in applications as they focus on invariant features and provide visually satisfying solutions to standard problems such as computing invariant distances, averaging curves, or registering…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-24 Perrine Chassat , Juhyun Park , Nicolas Brunel

The order in which plane-filling curves visit points in the plane can be exploited to design efficient algorithms. Typically, the curves are useful because they preserve locality: points that are close to each other along the curve tend to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Herman Haverkort

Quantum Graphity is an approach to quantum gravity based on a background independent formulation of condensed matter systems on graphs. We summarize recent results obtained on the notion of emergent geometry from the point of view of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-23 Francesco Caravelli

Object data analysis is concerned with statistical methodology for datasets whose elements reside in an arbitrary, unspecified metric space. In this work we propose the object shape, a novel measure of shape/symmetry for object data. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Joni Virta

In this work, an evolutionary art project is presented where images are approximated by transparent, overlapping and geometric shapes of different types, e.g., polygons, circles, lines. Genotypes representing features and order of the…

Let $C$ be a smooth, convex curve on either the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{2}$, the hyperbolic plane $\mathbb{H}^{2}$ or the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{E}^{2}$, with the following property: there exists $\alpha$, and parameterizations $x(t), y(t)$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Tarik Aougab , Xidian Sun , Serge Tabachnikov , Yuwen Wang

The notion of quantum embedding is considered for two classes of examples: quantum coadjoint orbits in Lie coalgebras and quantum symplectic leaves in spaces with non-Lie permutation relations. A method for constructing irreducible…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. V. Karasev