erence from its straight-line</span>
0009 <span class="comment">% approximation is maximal.</span>
0010 <span class="comment">% Terminates when either the curve length is too short,</span>
0011 <span class="comment">% or the scale-invariant merit value does not increase when further</span>
0012 <span class="comment">% breaking the curve apart.</span>
0013 <span class="comment">%</span>
0014 <span class="comment">% Iasonas Kokkinos &lt;jkokkin@stat.ucla.edu&gt;</span>
0015 <span class="comment">% 10/10/2007<