id: 01189327 dt: a an: 01189327 au: Hamann, Bernd; Jordan, Benjamin W. ti: Triangulations from repeated bisection. so: Dæhlen, Morten (ed.) et al., Mathematical methods for curves and surfaces II. 2nd international conference, Lillehammer, Norway, July 3‒8, 1997. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt Univ. Press. 229-236 (1998). py: 1998 pu: Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt Univ. Press la: EN cc: ut: iterative refinement; triangulations; best linear spline approximation ci: li: ab: Summary: We present a method for the iterative refinement of triangulations. Given a coarse triangulation of the compact domain of a bivariate function, we present a refinement strategy based on approximation error. The triangulation is used to compute a best linear spline approximation, using the term best approximation in an integral least squares sense. We improve an approximation by identifying the triangle with largest error and refine the triangulation by bisecting this triangle. rv: