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   url = {http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/AdaptivePlotting/},
   urldate = {2019-09-10}
 }
+
+@inproceedings{visvalingam1990douglas,
+  title={The Douglas-Peucker Algorithm for Line Simplification: Re-evaluation through Visualization},
+  author={Visvalingam, Mahes and Whyatt, J Duncan},
+  booktitle={Computer Graphics Forum},
+  volume={9},
+  number={3},
+  pages={213--225},
+  year={1990},
+  organization={Wiley Online Library}
+}
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 ## Line simplification loss
 
 #### The line simplification loss is based on an inverse Visvalingam’s algorithm.
+Inspired by a method commonly employed in digital cartography for coast line simplification, we construct a loss function that does its reverse. [@visvalingam1990douglas]
 <!-- https://bost.ocks.org/mike/simplify/ -->
 
 ## A parallelizable adaptive integration algorithm based on cquad