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We consider polyhedral approximations of strictly convex compacta in finite dimensional Euclidean spaces (such compacta are also uniformly convex). We obtain the best possible estimates for errors of considered approximations in the…

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We construct sense-preserving univalent harmonic mappings which map the unit disk onto a domain which is convex in the horizontal direction, but with varying dilatation. Also, we obtain minimal surfaces associated with such harmonic…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-08-04 YuePing Jiang , ZhiHong Liu , Saminathan Ponnusamy

A spherical polyhedron surface is a triangulated surface obtained by isometric gluing of spherical triangles. For instance, the boundary of a generic convex polytope in the 3-sphere is a spherical polyhedron surface. This paper investigates…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Feng Luo

While there is extensive literature on approximation of convex bodies by inscribed or circumscribed polytopes, much less is known in the case of generally positioned polytopes. Here we give upper and lower bounds for approximation of convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Steven D. Hoehner , Carsten Schuett , Elisabeth M. Werner

The current paper discusses some new results about conformal polynomic surface parameterizations. A new theorem is proved: Given a conformal polynomic surface parameterization of any degree it must be harmonic on each component. As a first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-28 David Pérez Fernández

In this survey we present the history and recent progress on several fundamental (quasi)conformal uniformization problems in the complex plane. Uniformization refers to the process of mapping a space to a canonical model by means of a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Dimitrios Ntalampekos

We present a procedure to approximate a plane contour by piecewise polynomial functions, depending on various parameters, such as degree, number of local patches, selection of knots. This procedure aims to be adopted to study how…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-15 Maria-Laura Torrente , Stefano Anzellotti , Chiara Finocchiaro , Claudio Fontanari

In this survey we present the most recent developments in the uniformization of metric surfaces, i.e., metric spaces homeomorphic to two-dimensional topological manifolds. We start from the classical conformal uniformization theorem of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Dimitrios Ntalampekos

Deciding realizability of a given polyhedral map on a (compact, connected) surface belongs to the hard problems in discrete geometry, from the theoretical, the algorithmic, and the practical point of view. In this paper, we present a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-13 Stefan Hougardy , Frank H. Lutz , Mariano Zelke

This article is concerned with the problem of approximating a not necessarily bounded spectrahedral shadow, a certain convex set, by polyhedra. By identifying the set with its homogenization the problem is reduced to the approximation of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Daniel Dörfler , Andreas Löhne

An approximation theorem for minimal surfaces by complete minimal surfaces of finite total curvature in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is obtained. This Mergelyan type result can be extended to the family of complete minimal surfaces of weak finite total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Francisco J. Lopez

We construct flat metrics in a given conformal class with prescribed singularities of real orders at marked points of a closed real surface. The singularities can be small conical, cylindrical, and large conical with possible translation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-13 Sergiu Moroianu

The conformal deformations are contained in two classes of mappings: quasiconformal and harmonic mappings. In this paper we consider the intersection of these classes. We show that, every $K$ quasiconformal harmonic mapping between…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-09 David Kalaj

Conformal surface parameterization is useful in graphics, imaging and visualization, with applications to texture mapping, atlas construction, registration, remeshing and so on. With the increasing capability in scanning and storing data,…

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Surface parameterization is a fundamental task in geometry processing and plays an important role in many science and engineering applications. In recent years, the density-equalizing map, a shape deformation technique based on the physical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zhiyuan Lyu , Lok Ming Lui , Gary P. T. Choi

We consider minimization of functions that are compositions of convex or prox-regular functions (possibly extended-valued) with smooth vector functions. A wide variety of important optimization problems fall into this framework. We describe…

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This paper defines a theory of conformal parametrization of digital surfaces made of surfels equipped with a normal vector. The main idea is to locally project each surfel to the tangent plane, therefore deforming its aspect-ratio. It is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-02-18 Christian Mercat

In this work, we are concerned with the spherical quasiconformal parameterization of genus-0 closed surfaces. Given a genus-0 closed triangulated surface and an arbitrary user-defined quasiconformal distortion, we propose a fast algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Gary Pui-Tung Choi , Mandy Hiu-Ying Man , Lok Ming Lui

In the optimization of convex domains under a PDE constraint numerical difficulties arise in the approximation of convex domains in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Previous research used a restriction to rotationally symmetric domains to reduce shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Sören Bartels , Hedwig Keller , Gerd Wachsmuth

We show that on almost complex surfaces plurisubharmonic functions can be locally approximated by smooth plurisubharmonic functions. The main tool is the Poletsky type theorem due to U. Kuzman.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Szymon Pliś