Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 359, No. 12 (Dec., 2007), pp. 5725-5759 (35 pages) Let the space ℝⁿ be endowed with a Minkowski structure ...

What if instead of defining a mesh as a series of vertices and edges in a 3D space, you could describe it as a single function? The easiest function would return the signed distance to the closest ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to compute the Wasserstein distance and explains why it is often preferable to alternative distance functions, used to measure the distance between ...