Medial/Skeletal Linking Structures for Multi-Region Configurations

Download or read book Medial/Skeletal Linking Structures for Multi-Region Configurations written by James Damon and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors consider a generic configuration of regions, consisting of a collection of distinct compact regions in which may be either regions with smooth boundaries disjoint from the others or regions which meet on their piecewise smooth boundaries in a generic way. They introduce a skeletal linking structure for the collection of regions which simultaneously captures the regions' individual shapes and geometric properties as well as the “positional geometry” of the collection. The linking structure extends in a minimal way the individual “skeletal structures” on each of the regions. This allows the authors to significantly extend the mathematical methods introduced for single regions to the configuration of regions.