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Progressive Meshes

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Highly detailed geometric models are rapidly becoming common-place in computer graphics. These models, often represented as complex triangle meshes, challenge rendering performance, transmission bandwidth, and storage capacities. This paper introduces the progressive mesh (PM) representation, a new scheme for storing and transmitting arbitrary triangle meshes. This efficient, loss less, continuous-resolution representation addresses several practical problems in graphics: smooth geomorphing of level-of-detail approximations, progressive transmission, mesh compression, and selective refinement

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            Seminal Graphics Papers: Pushing the Boundaries, Volume 2
            August 2023
            893 pages
            ISBN:9798400708978
            DOI:10.1145/3596711
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            • Mary C. Whitton
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              SIGGRAPH '96: Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
              August 1996
              528 pages
              ISBN:0897917464
              DOI:10.1145/237170

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