Abstract:
In this paper, a new quadric-based view-dependent simplification scheme is presented. The scheme provides a method to connect mesh simplification controlled by a quadric error metric with a level-of-detail hierarchy that is accessed continuously and efficiently based on current view parameters. A variety of methods for determining the screen-space metric for the view calculation are implemented and evaluated, including an appearance-preserving method that has both geometry- and texture- preserving aspects. Results are presented and compared for a variety of models.

Keywords: View-dependent, level of detail, simplification, appearance-preserving, multiresolution models

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