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We find experimentally that, if the initial curve is held fixed and P is chosen to be either a very fine regular grid or a uniformly random point set, then HCS behaves at the limit like the affine curve-shortening flow (ACSF). This connection between HCS and ACSF generalizes the link between \"grid peeling\" and the ACSF observed by Eppstein et al. (2017), which applied only to convex curves, and which was studied only for regular grids. We prove that HCS satisfies some properties analogous to those of ACSF: HCS is invariant under affine transformations, preserves convexity, and does not increase the total absolute curvature. Furthermore, the number of self-intersections of a curve, or intersections between two curves (appropriately defined), does not increase. Finally, if the initial curve is simple, then the number of inflection points (appropriately defined) does not increase."}],"publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9783959771436"],"issn":["18688969"]},"oa_version":"Published Version","author":[{"last_name":"Avvakumov","full_name":"Avvakumov, Sergey","first_name":"Sergey","id":"3827DAC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"last_name":"Nivasch","first_name":"Gabriel","full_name":"Nivasch, Gabriel"}],"intvolume":"       164","oa":1,"article_processing_charge":"No","citation":{"short":"S. Avvakumov, G. Nivasch, in:, 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020.","ama":"Avvakumov S, Nivasch G. Homotopic curve shortening and the affine curve-shortening flow. In: <i>36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry</i>. Vol 164. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2020. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.12\">10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.12</a>","mla":"Avvakumov, Sergey, and Gabriel Nivasch. “Homotopic Curve Shortening and the Affine Curve-Shortening Flow.” <i>36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry</i>, vol. 164, 12:1-12:15, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.12\">10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.12</a>.","ieee":"S. Avvakumov and G. Nivasch, “Homotopic curve shortening and the affine curve-shortening flow,” in <i>36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry</i>, Zürich, Switzerland, 2020, vol. 164.","apa":"Avvakumov, S., &#38; Nivasch, G. (2020). Homotopic curve shortening and the affine curve-shortening flow. In <i>36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry</i> (Vol. 164). Zürich, Switzerland: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.12\">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.12</a>","ista":"Avvakumov S, Nivasch G. 2020. Homotopic curve shortening and the affine curve-shortening flow. 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry. SoCG: Symposium on Computational Geometry, LIPIcs, vol. 164, 12:1-12:15.","chicago":"Avvakumov, Sergey, and Gabriel Nivasch. “Homotopic Curve Shortening and the Affine Curve-Shortening Flow.” In <i>36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry</i>, Vol. 164. 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