BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:19721003T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19721003T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240214T070241Z LOCATION:Darling Harbour Theatre\, Level 2 (Convention Centre) DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T124500 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2023_sess209_papers_793@linklings.com SUMMARY:Metric Optimization in Penner Coordinates DESCRIPTION:Technical Papers\n\nRyan Capouellez and Denis Zorin (New York University)\n\nMany parametrization and mapping-related problems in geomet ry processing can be viewed as metric optimization problems, i.e., computi ng a metric minimizing a functional and satisfying a set of constraints, s uch as flatness. \n\nPenner coordinates are global coordinates on the spac e of metrics on meshes with a fixed vertex set and topology, but varying c onnectivity, making it homeomorphic to the Euclidean space of dimension eq ual to the number of edges in the mesh, without any additional constraints imposed, and reducing to logarithms of edge lengths when restricted to a fixed connectivity. \nThese coordinates play an important role in the theo ry of discrete conformal maps, enabling recent development of highly robus t algorithms with convergence and solution existence guarantees for comput ing such maps. \n\nWe demonstrate how Penner coordinates can be used to so lve a general class of problems involving metrics, including optimization and interpolation, while retaining the key guarantees available for confor mal maps.\n\nRegistration Category: Full Access, Enhanced Access, Trade Ex hibitor, Experience Hall Exhibitor URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2023/full-program?id=papers_793&sess=sess209 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR