• DocumentCode
    1405463
  • Title

    Shape Measures for Triangles

  • Author

    Farin, Gerald

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. Inf., & Decision Syst. Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    43
  • Lastpage
    46
  • Abstract
    We compare a variety of triangle shape measures using concepts such as smoothness and convexity. We show that one of these measures, the elongation measure, lends itself to an intuitive geometric interpretation.
  • Keywords
    computational geometry; elongation measurement; geometric interpretation; triangle shape measurement; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Interpolation; Joining processes; Lead; Loss measurement; Shape; Shape measurement; Shape; circumellipse.; condition number; triangle;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1077-2626
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TVCG.2010.256
  • Filename
    5669301