d3.js How to simplify a complex path - using a custom algorithm

Question

I\'ve got a very basic example here. http://jsfiddle.net/jEfsh/57/ that creates a

Answer 1

Lots of good references in the comments to this question -- alas they are comments and not suggested answers which can be truly voted on.

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/simplify/

shows interactive use of this kind of thing which references Douglas-Peucker but also Visvalingam.