Günter Rote and Robert Franz Tichy:
Spherical dispersion with an application to polygonal approximation of
curves
Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Abteilung II 132 (1995), 3-10, (Zbl
865.11054).
Abstract
We describe and analyze a procedure for the polygonal approximation of
spatial curves using “well-distributed” points on the sphere. Here the
dispersion of the point set with respect to spherical slices
(intersections of two half-spheres) plays a role.
Last update: August 16, 2004.