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Wachspress and mean value coordinates are two generalizations of triangular barycentric coordinates to convex polygons and have recently been used to construct mappings between polygons, with application to curve deformation and image warping. We show that Wachspress mappings between convex polygons are always injective but that mean value mappings can fail to be so in extreme cases.
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Floater, M.S., Kosinka, J. On the injectivity of Wachspress and mean value mappings between convex polygons. Adv Comput Math 32, 163–174 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10444-008-9098-z
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