Talk:Visvalingam–Whyatt algorithm

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1. The illustration image is bad. It's from the Douglas-Pecker algorithm.

2. Advantages: For geographical maps, V-W usually generates better visual results than D-P.

3. Disadvantages: The basic Visvalingam–Whyatt algorithm may generate self intersections, not allowed in many applications. The modified V-W-algorithm takes care of this problem.

4. It may worth to link https://www.jasondavies.com/simplify/ It's a working JavaScript implementation of the modified V-W with explanation.

Yogurt (talk) 14:42, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]