Copyright, references and citation info ======================================= Copyright --------- The authors and copyright holders of Python Mapper are Daniel Müllner and Aravindakshan Babu. The authors can be contacted in the following way: Daniel Müllner: http://www.danifold.net Aravindakshan Babu: `anounceofpractice@hotmail.com `_ The Python Mapper software is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3. The license text can be found here: GPLv3_ .. _GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html References ---------- The Mapper algorithm was invented by Gurjeet Singh, Facundo Mémoli and Gunnar Carlsson. It is presented in the paper [R1]_. The point clouds in the ``exampleshapes`` directory were converted from mesh data which was published by Robert W. Sumner and Jovan Popović [R8]_. The mesh data was originally published along with the paper [R7]_. Citation info ------------- To cite the original Mapper algorithm: .. [R1] Gurjeet Singh, Facundo Mémoli and Gunnar Carlsson, *Topological Methods for the Analysis of High Dimensional Data Sets and 3D Object Recognition*, Eurographics Symposium on Point Based Graphics, European Association for Computer Graphics, 2007, pp. 91–100, DOI `10.2312/SPBG/SPBG07/091-100 `_ To cite the Python Mapper software: .. [R2] Daniel Müllner and Aravindakshan Babu, *Python Mapper: An open-source toolchain for data exploration, analysis and visualization*, 2013, URL http://danifold.net/mapper To cite the scale graph algorithm: .. [R3] Daniel Müllner, Gurjeet Singh, Facundo Mémoli and Gunnar Carlsson, *Consistent scale selection for exploratory visualization and analysis of data sets*, manuscript in preparation, 2013 .. rubric:: More references, collected from the Python Mapper documentation .. [R4] Frédéric Chazal, David Cohen-Steiner and Quentin Mérigot, *Geometric Inference for Measures based on Distance Functions*, INRIA Rapport de recherche 6930 Second version, 2010, http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00383685/. .. [R5] Gunnar Carlsson, |TopoData|_, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. **46** (2009), 255–308 .. _TopoData: http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2009-46-02/S0273-0979-09-01249-X/ .. |TopoData| replace:: *Topology and Data* .. [R6] P\. Y. Lum, G. Singh, A. Lehman, T. Ishkanov, M. Vejdemo-Johansson, M. Alagappan, J. Carlsson and G. Carlsson, *Extracting insights from the shape of complex data using topology*, Sci. Rep., **3** (2013), DOI `10.1038/srep01236 `_ .. [R7] Robert W. Sumner and Jovan Popović, *Deformation Transfer for Triangle Meshes*, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) – Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, **23** (2004), no. 3, pp. 399–405, DOI `10.1145/1015706.1015736 `_. .. [R8] Robert W. Sumner, personal web page: http://people.csail.mit.edu/sumner/research/deftransfer/data.html .. [R9] Hao Zhang, Oliver van Kaick and Ramsay Dyer, *Spectral Mesh Processing*, Computer Graphics Forum, **29** (2010), no. 6, pp. 1865–1894, DOI `10.1111/j.1467-8659.2010.01655.x `_.