On a new conformal functional for simplicial surfaces

Alexander I. Bobenko, Martin P. Weidner

We introduce a smooth quadratic conformal functional and its weighted version $$W_2=\sum _e{\beta }^2(e)W_{2,w}=\sum _e(n_i+n_j){\beta }^2(e),$$ where $\beta (e)$ is the extrinsic intersection…