This paper presents a new tool, Metro, designed to compensate for a deficiency in many
simplification methods proposed in literature. Metro allows one to compare the difference …

Level of detail (LOD) techniques are increasingly used by professional real-time developers
to strike the balance between breathtaking virtual worlds and smooth, flowing animation …

The Visualization Handbook provides an overview of the field of visualization by presenting
the basic concepts, providing a snapshot of current visualization software systems, and …

Surface matching is the process that compares surfaces and decides whether they are
similar. In three-dimensional (3-D) computer vision, surface matching plays a prominent role …

Given an arbitrary mesh, we present a method to construct a progressive mesh (PM) such
that all meshes in the PM sequence share a common texture parametrization. Our method …

In many applications the need for an accurate simplification of surface meshes is becoming
more and more urgent. This need is not only due to rendering speed reasons, but also to …

Advances in modern 3D scanning technology and the increasingly size of computer
simulations have led to a rapid increase in the availability and size of geometry data sets …

This paper surveys methods for simplifying and approximating polygonal surfaces. A
polygonal surface is a piecewiselinear surface in 3-D defined by a set of polygons; typically …

We propose the idea of simplification envelopes for generating a hierarchy of level-of-detail
approximations for a given polygonal model. Our approach guarantees that all points of an …

The algorithm presented simplifies polyhedral meshes within prespecified tolerances based
on a bounded approximation criterion. The vertices in the simplified mesh are a proper …