Decimation of triangle meshes

Abstract
This paper describes an application independent algorithmthat uses local operations on geometry and topologyto reduce the number of triangles in a triangle mesh.Although our implementation is for the triangle mesh, itcan be directly applied to the more general polygon mesh.After describing other work related to model creationfrom sampled data, we describe the triangle decimationprocess and its implementation. Results from two differentgeometric modeling applications illustrate the...

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