This survey gives a brief overview of theoretically and practically relevant algorithms to compute geodesic paths and distances on three-dimensional surfaces. The survey focuses on polyhedral three-dimensional surfaces.
@article{arxiv.0904.2550,
title = {Geodesic Paths On 3D Surfaces: Survey and Open Problems},
author = {Anil Maheshwari and Stefanie Wuhrer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2550},
year = {2012}
}