From: Stephane Morvan Subject: Re: DESIGN: Control of Smoothing Group Technique Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 15:54:35 -0400 Message-ID: <31A7657B.167E@eng.clemson.edu> Organization: Clemson University Couple of things that I know and that may work: - Decimation Algorithms, initially designed to reduce the Gazillion of Polys created by CAT/MRI reconstructed models, these may be useful for reducing the number of Polys used within a model. The starting point could SIGGRAPH'92, where such an Algorithms is outlined. - Use Level-Of-Detail for visualization. I think it has been hardware encoded on the new Onyx InfiniteReality, thus very cheap to use. - Much better, use an algorithm that is relying on an evaluated form of your surfaces to create a tessellation appropriate to the current position, but it is going to be really computationally expensive. I don't know if I really answer any of your question though.... -- Stephane Morvan ************************************************************************* * Clemson Design Methodology Group * * * * Home : (803)-639-3755 Office : (803)-656-7176 * * e-mail : smorvan@eng.clemson.edu * * WWW : http://www.eng.clemson.edu/dmg/people/morvan.html * * * *************************************************************************