An axiomatic approach to scalar data interpolation on surfaces (Q818588)

The authors discuss possible algorithms for interpolating data on surfaces embedded in the three-dimensional-real space starting from data given on a set of curves contained in the surface. The paper is organized in three sections. Section 1 contains a short presentation of the stucture of the paper. In Section 2 the authors introduce a set of axioms which should be satisfied by any interpolation operator on a surface in the real 3-dimensional space. Section 3 contains a briefly description of absolutely minimizing Lipschitz extension model (AMLE). In Section 4 the authors explain the numerical approach used to solve the AMLE model. In Section 5 some numerical examples are presented. The main result of the authors is that any operator which interpolates continuous data given on a set of curves on the surface can be given as the viscosity solution of an elliptic partial differential equation on the manifold. In this way they extend the corresponding results obtained in the plane.