Filling polygonal holes with minimal energy surfaces on Powell-Sabin type triangulations (Q970394)

Several papers related to the field of filling holes have appeared in recent years [e.g., \textit{V. Rayevskaya} and \textit{L. L. Schumaker}, Comput. Aided Geom. Des. 22, No.~1, 57--79 (2005; Zbl 1081.65020)]. Considering a polygonal domain \( D \subset \mathbb R^2\) and a hole \(H\) in an explicit 3D-surface defined over \(\overline D-H\), the authors present two different methods, a discontinuous and continuous one, for filling the hole by a smooth function \(f\). Employing an \(\alpha\)-triangulation of \(\overline D\), a polynomial domain \(H^*\) surrounding \(H\) is defined. In the discontinuous case, the hole is filled with a function in a Powell-Sabin spline space over \(H^*\) that minimizes a linear combination of the usual seminorms in an adequate Sobolev space. In the continuous case, \(f\) is first replaced outside the hole by a smoothing bivariate spline \(s_h\) and the hole is filled with a Powell-Sabin spline minimizing a linear combination of given seminorms.