TY - GEN A1 - Hildebrandt, Klaus A1 - Polthier, Konrad T1 - On approximation of the Laplace--Beltrami operator and the Willmore energy of surfaces N2 - Discrete Laplace--Beltrami operators on polyhedral surfaces play an important role for various applications in geometry processing and related areas like physical simulation or computer graphics. While discretizations of the weak Laplace--Beltrami operator are well-studied, less is known about the strong form. We present a principle for constructing strongly consistent discrete Laplace--Beltrami operators based on the cotan weights. The consistency order we obtain, improves previous results reported for the mesh Laplacian. Furthermore, we prove consistency of the discrete Willmore energies corresponding to the discrete Laplace--Beltrami operators. KW - Discrete Laplace--Beltrami operators KW - Discrete Willmore energies Y1 - 2011 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-matheon/frontdoor/index/index/docId/866 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0296-matheon-8662 ER -