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Practical applications of dandelin spheres
I know that dandelin spheres can be used to prove the focal properties of conic sections, but I heard that they can be used to help track the orbits of planets. All the sources I looked up only said ...
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A metric geometry problem which calculates the limitation of human eyes
This is the update version of this question A functional inequality which calculates the limitation of human eyes
Let an Euclidean space $M$ (or a path connected metric space) be partitioned into ...
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Persistent homology stability results (query about Lipschitz functions)
One of the beneficial properties of persistent homology is its stability results (so called robustness to noise).
Usually the referenced paper is this paper
titled "Lipschitz functions have $L_p$-...
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Fast Bourgain embedding (or similar embeddings)?
Currently I am working on applications of Bourgain Embedding (or similar embeddings of finite metric spaces to $l_2$) to automatic feature engineering for machine learning/data science ( http://www....
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Do bubbles between plates approximate Voronoi diagrams?
For example, soap bubbles:
Image from UPenn:
"A 2-dimensional foam of wet soap bubbles squashed between glass plates, after 10 hours ...
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Curves similarity metric [closed]
I am working on an optical character recognition algorithm that takes vector data (i.e. polylines) as input rather than raster picture. E.g., we have N polyline samples, and when certain polyline is ...