@article{10.1111:cgf.12973,
  title =      "Curve Reconstruction with Many Fewer Samples",
  author =     "Stefan Ohrhallinger and Scott A. Mitchell and Michael Wimmer",
  journal =    "Computer Graphics Forum",
  year =       "2016",
  number =     "5",
  volume =     "35",
  pages =      "--",
  publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
  ISSN = {1467-8659},
  DOI = {10.1111/cgf.12973},
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2016/ohrhallinger-2016-sgp/",
  keywords =   "sampling condition, curve reconstruction, curve sampling",
  abstract =   "We consider the problem of sampling points from a collection
               of smooth curves in the plane, such that the Crust family of
               proximity-based reconstruction algorithms can rebuild the
               curves. Reconstruction requires a dense sampling of local
               features, i.e., parts of the curve that are close in
               Euclidean distance but far apart geodesically. We show that
               epsilon<0.47-sampling is sufficient for our proposed
               HNN-CRUST variant, improving upon the  state-of-the-art
               requirement of epsilon<1/3-sampling. Thus we may reconstruct
               curves with many fewer samples. We also present a new
               sampling scheme that reduces the required density even
               further than epsilon<0.47-sampling. We achieve this by
               better controlling the spacing between geodesically
               consecutive points. Our novel sampling condition is based on
               the reach, the minimum local feature size along intervals
               between samples. This is mathematically closer to the
               reconstruction density requirements, particularly near
               sharp-angled features. We prove lower and upper bounds on
               reach rho-sampling density in terms of lfs epsilon-sampling
               and demonstrate that we typically reduce the required number
               of samples for reconstruction by more than half. "
}