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The notion of discrete conformality proposed by Luo (2004) and Bobenko et al. (2015) on triangle meshes has rich mathematical theories and wide applications. Gu et al. (2019) and Wu and Zhu (2020) proved that the discrete uniformizations approximate the continuous uniformization for closed surfaces of genus \(\ge 1\), given that the approximating triangle meshes are reasonably good. In this paper, we generalize this result to the remaining case of genus zero surfaces, by reducing it to planar cases via stereographic projections.
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The work is supported in part by NSF 1719582, NSF 1760471, NSF 1760527, NSF DMS 1737876, and NSF 1811878.
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Luo, Y., Wu, T. & Zhu, X. The Convergence of Discrete Uniformizations for Genus Zero Surfaces. Discrete Comput Geom 71, 1057–1080 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-022-00458-w
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