Mesh Simplification for Interactive Applications

Model Simplification Through Refinement

As modeling and visualization applications proliferate, there arises a need to simplify large polygonal models at interactive rates. Unfortunately existing polygon mesh simplification algorithms are not well suited for this task because they are either too slow (requiring the simplified model to be pre-computed) or produce models that are too poor in quality. These shortcomings become particula...

Simplification of Arbitrary Polyhedral Meshes

Surface models containing billions of polygons are becoming more frequent in computer graphics. Mesh simplification is necessary for displaying such surfaces at interactive rates. We describe a novel method for simplifying polyhedral meshes while producing multiple levels of detail for progressive transmission and interactive exploration. Unlike previous work on mesh simplification, our method ...

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Organization and Simplification of High-Resolution 3D City Facades

This paper describes an approach for the organization and simplification of high-resolution geometry and imagery data for 3D buildings for interactive city navigation. At the highest level of organization, building data are inserted into a global hierarchy that supports the large-scale storage of cities around the world. This structure also provides fast access to the data suitable for interact...

DStrips: Dynamic Triangle Strips for Real-Time Mesh Simplification and Rendering

DStrips is a simple and efficient method to dynamically manage and generate triangle strips for real-time viewdependent multiresolution meshing and rendering. Progressive view-dependent triangle mesh simplification and rendering is an important concept for interactive visualization environments. To minimize the rendering cost, triangle meshes are simplified to the maximal tolerated perceptual e...