Timeline for Minimal approximations of surfaces by convex polygons
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| Aug 22, 2017 at 10:56 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @Qurious: Allowing faces that are quads, pentagons, etc., doesn't change anything, because each quad could be partitioned into two triangles, each pentagon into three triangles, etc., and the number of vertices remains the same. So if you are minimizing vertices, it is appropriate to look at triangulations. | |
| Aug 22, 2017 at 3:36 | comment | added | Qurious | Is it obvious that a triangulation will minimize the number of vertices of a genus g surface built of convex faces? In any case, thanks for the answer! | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 21:46 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2017 at 21:35 | history | answered | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |