“…These objects were first introduced by Diliberto and Straus [7] (in [7], they are called "permissible lines"). They appeared further in a number of papers with several different names such as "bolts" (see, e.g., [2,20,28]), "trips" (see [29]), "links" (see, e.g., [6,22,23]), etc. Paths with respect to two directions a 1 and a 2 were exploited in some papers devoted to ridge function interpolation (see, e.g., [3,13]).…”