“Too many triangles”
Conference:
Type(s):
Interest Area:
- Modeling / Geometry and Technical
Title:
- Too many triangles
Session/Category Title: Another Fine Mesh
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Abstract:
In most triangle-mesh representations of curved surfaces, the triangle vertices lie on the surface. This sketch shows that, by relaxing this condition, the error of approximation can be halved.
References:
1. 1 Musin, O.R. Properties of the Delaunay triangulation. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, Nice, France, June 1997, 424-426.
2. 2 Wyvill, G. and McRobie, D. Adaptive polygonization of cao en surfaces. Insight through Computer Graphics Proceedings of CG International 194 World Scientific, 1996, 250-256.
3. 3 Seibold, W. and Wyvill, G. Towards an understanding of surfaces through polygonization. Proceedings of CGI 198, in press.
