After smoothing a node its position
has changed into
satisfying:
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where are the neighbors of
,
(
is
the desired edge length in node
) and
is a relaxation factor taking the value of
. Defining the quality of the
ball to be the quality of its worst element (i.e. highest value), a node
is only smoothed if
the quality of its ball after smoothing has a smaller value (i.e. is better)
than before smoothing.