Dr Colin Bridgewater (crccobr++at++nocrc.abb.no)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:17:51 +0200
Lee Willis wrote:
> You cannot take a mesh, and any simplification of that mesh, and be
> guaranteed that there exists a set of ASD steps that will get you
> from one to the next.
>
> What you *could* do, is use a mesh simplification/decimation
> algorithm (e.g. wavelet simplification) to create a simplified base
> mesh, and then reconstruct finer levels of detail from that base
> mesh which would follow the ASD connectivity requirements. The best
> LOD of this mesh would approximate your initial mesh, but would not
> exactly match it.
Anyone tried using fractals to do this sort of thing ?
Best wishes
Colin
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