Peter Popov wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:33:16 +0100, "Rune" <run### [at] inamecom>
>wrote:
>
>>However, I'm not sure what the difference is between this:
>>
>>>Do this until no force is greater than a certain threshold value
>>
>>...and this:
>>
>>>or even better, the standard deviation of the forces
>>>falls below a certain level (i.e. the spline is equistressed).
>
>The difference is that if you have too many points, the forces between
>them may be great but still equal, which would force the first
>algorithm into an infinite loop, while the second (which looks at the
>deviation) will stop seeing that all forces are virtually equal.

Thanks, I get it now. :-)

I've tested your method and it seems to work fine. I still need to optimize
it though. So far I've just looped the code a certain number of times, but I
want to optimize it so it stops automatically when no more calculations are
needed, like you described.

Greetings,

Rune

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