Knot Tightening by Constrained Gradient Descent

DOI10.1080/10586458.2011.544581zbMath1261.49007arXiv1002.1723OpenAlexW2108273387MaRDI QIDQ4915374

Ted Ashton, Jason Cantarella, Michael Piatek, Eric J. Rawdon

Publication date: 10 April 2013

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1723

zbMATH Keywords

ropelengthideal knotstight knotsconstrained gradient descentknot-tighteningsparse nonnegative least-squares problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25)

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Uses Software

• KnotPlot
• TAUCS
• TSNNLS

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