
104 Laplace and Poisson
Figure 7.2: Poisson problem with Dirichlet boundary condition (left),
and with Neumann boundary condition (right).
in the missing parts, which eventually leads to smooth areas, is a
reasonable assumption. Thus, smoothness is a reasonable prior.
In Figure 7.3 there is a somewhat surprising result of employing
the smoothness prior. The image on the left consists of several
random lines. The pixels along the lines have color values taken
from the corresponding pixels of the image on the right. The
image on the left is completed by synthesizing a smooth image
that agrees with the data along these lines, and is as smooth as
possible ...