Title
Discretizing Wachspress kernels is safe.
Abstract
Barycentric coordinates were introduced by Mbius in 1827 as an alternative to Cartesian coordinates. They describe points relative to the vertices of a simplex and are commonly used to express the linear interpolant of data given at these vertices. Generalized barycentric coordinates and kernels extend this idea from simplices to polyhedra and smooth domains. In this paper, we focus on Wachspress coordinates and Wachspress kernels with respect to strictly convex planar domains. Since Wachspress kernels can be evaluated analytically only in special cases, a common way to approximate them is to discretize the domain by an inscribed polygon and to use Wachspress coordinates, which have a simple closed form. We show that this discretization, which is known to converge quadratically, is safe in the sense that the Wachspress coordinates used in this process are well-defined not only over the inscribed polygon, but over the entire original domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.cagd.2017.02.015
Computer Aided Geometric Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
Barycentric coordinates,Wachspress coordinates,Barycentric kernel,Convergence
Polygon,Mathematical optimization,Log-polar coordinates,Inscribed figure,Polyhedron,Simplex,Orthogonal coordinates,Mathematics,Barycentric coordinate system,Cartesian coordinate system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
52
C
0167-8396
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Hormann172653.94
Jirí Kosinka28417.76