"An Energy-Driven Approach to Linkage Unfolding"

In this paper, we introduce a new energy-driven approach for straightening polygonal arcs and convexifying polygonal cycles without self-intersection based on following the gradient flow of a "repulsive" energy function.



Cantarella, J. H., Demaine, E. D., Iben, H. N., and O'Brien, J. F., "An Energy-Driven Approach to Linkage Unfolding." Proceedings of the 12th Annual DIMACS Workshop on Computational Geometry, Piscataway, New Jersey, November 14-15, 2002.




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