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In mathematics, the progressive-iterative approximation method is an iterative method of data fitting with geometric meanings.[1] Given a set of data points to be fitted, the method obtains a series of fitting curves (or surfaces) by iteratively updating the control points, and the limit curve (surface) can interpolate or approximate the given data points.[2] It avoids solving a linear system of equations directly and allows flexibility in adding constraints during the iterative process.[3] Therefore, it has been widely used in geometric design and related fields.[2]
The study of the iterative method with geometric meaning can be traced back to the work of scholars such as Dongxu Qi and Carl de Boor in the 1970s.[4][5] In 1975, Qi et al. developed and proved the "profit and loss" algorithm for uniform cubic B-spline curves,[4] and in 1979, de Boor independently proposed this algorithm.[5] In 2004, Hongwei Lin and coauthors proved that non-uniform cubic B-spline curves and surfaces have the "profit and loss" property.[3] Later, in 2005, Lin et al. proved that the curves and surfaces with normalized and totally positive basis all have this property and named it progressive iterative approximation (PIA).[1] In 2007, Maekawa et al. changed the algebraic distance in PIA to geometric distance and named it geometric interpolation (GI).[6] In 2008, Cheng et al. extended it to subdivision surfaces and named the method progressive interpolation (PI).[7] Since the iteration steps of the PIA, GI, and PI algorithms are similar and all have geometric meanings, they are collectively referred to as geometric iterative methods (GIM).[2]
PIA is now extended to several common curves and surfaces in the geometric design field,[8] including NURBS curves and surfaces,[9] T-spline surfaces,[10] and implicit curves and surfaces.[11]
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