reminds me of that 1994 paper that reinvented the trapezoidal rule
anyhoo, it's always a great skill to review the state-of-the-art BEFORE investing in a work/write-up/article - one of the very first things that a post-graduate program would teach you.
- we are presented something
"I would be (pleasantly) surprised if the algorithm is novel. Further research after posting reveals the paper Efficient Feature Extraction for 2D/3D Objects in Mesh Representation by Cha Zheng and Tsuhan Chen, which appears to describe the same algorithm, although the derivation is different. It was fun while it lasted!"
- there was an initial expectation, though slim, that it may be novel. then on the discovery that it wasn't, related fun time was insinuated to be over.
are we reading the same text?
See, when I was a kid I found something I thought was great and inventive only to find that it was not only long trodden mathematics it was famous long trodden mathematics. I named it after myself for humorous value, the distinction between others who dreamed of finding some novel structure and me being solely that I did not know the famous results and conjectures in the space.
https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Roshan%27s_Conjecture
I think this is quite entertaining.