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Coastline has different geographical bending characteristics in different coastal geomorphic regions. The existing fractal interpolation methods for coastline mostly focus on how to simulate its fractal characteristic but neglect the geographical bending characteristic. This study presents an improved controlled fractal inter polation method based on one-dimensional Random Midpoint Displacement (RMD) that aims to preserve both the bending characteristics and fractal characteristics of coastline. First, the coastline is divided into sev eral parts based on its bending characteristics, in order to conserve the geographical bending struc ture of the coastline and change the uncontrollable general fractal interpolation into a combination of sev er al piece-wise interpolation units. Second, the fractal interpolation function of one-dimensional RMD is used for each divided bending unit of the coastline, and the parameters of RMD function are restricted by the con straints of each unit bending characteristics. T...