Abstract
We present a new multiphase method for efficiently simplifying polygonal surface models of arbitrary size. It operates by combining an initial out-of-core uniform clustering phase with a subsequent in-core iterative edge contraction phase. These two phases are both driven by quadric error metrics, and quadrics are used to pass information about the original surface between phases. The result is a method that produces approximations of a quality comparable to quadric-based iterative edge contraction, but at a fraction of the cost in terms of running time and memory consumption.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 117-124 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| State | Published - 2002 |
| Event | VIS 2002, IEEE Visualisation 2002 - Boston, MA, United States Duration: Oct 27 2002 → Nov 1 2002 |
Other
| Other | VIS 2002, IEEE Visualisation 2002 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Boston, MA |
| Period | 10/27/02 → 11/1/02 |
Keywords
- Massive meshes
- Multiphase simplification
- Out-of-core simplification
- Quadric error metrics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Science(all)
- Engineering(all)
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design