Reminds me of "Locally Smooth Manifold Learning" [1], specifically figure 6 in "Learning to Traverse Image Manifolds" [2]. [1] http://vision.ucsd.edu/project/l

Reminds me of "Locally Smooth Manifold Learning" [1], specifically figure 6 in "Learning to Traverse Image Manifolds" [2]. [1] http://vision.ucsd.edu/project/locally-smooth-manifold-learning http://vision.ucsd.edu/project/locally-smooth-manifold-learn... [2] http://vision.ucsd.edu/sites/default/files/DollarRabaudBelongieNIPS06manifold.pdf http://vision.ucsd.edu/sites/default/files/DollarRabaudBelon...