“…There is a large volume of foundational previous work in the area of curve simplification [4], including work on vertex-constrained simplification, such as the well-known algorithms by Ramer and by Douglas and Peucker [16,33] using the Hausdorff distance, by Imai and Iri [22] using either the Hausdorff or the Fréchet distance, by Agarwal et al [3] using the Fréchet distance, and various improvements and related approaches [7,8,10,15,20,21,30,35]. In particular, the basic approach of the Imai-Iri algorithm involves computing the shortcut graph, which captures all the possible simplifications of a curve, and then finding a shortest path through the graph in terms of the number of edges from the start node to the end node, thus finding the simplification with fewest edges.…”