 Quote by teodron
Thank you all for your replies!
As for cutting the surface with a perpendicular knife, it's dubbed the "greedy algorithm" to approximate geodesics on manifolds (probably not producing genuine geodesics..) - how can I prove or disprove this?
Again, thank you..
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What do you mean by the greedy algorithm?
The perpendicular knife determines a plane that contains the normal to the surface. So the acceleration of a unit speed curve that lies on the surface must be normal to the surface.