Contents

• Preliminaries
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
  • Abstract
• Introduction
• Literature Review
  • Mesh Simplification
    • Decimation of Triangle Meshes
    • Simplifying Surfaces with Color and Texture Using Quadric Error Metrics
    • Mesh Optimization
    • Progressive Meshes
    • Fast and Memory Efficient Polygonal Simplification
    • A Unified Approach for Simplifying Polygonal and Spline Models
  • Analyzing Geometric Error
    • Metro: Measuring Error on Simplified Surfaces
    • Evaluation of Memoryless Simplification
• The Decimation Program
  • Design
    • Data Structures
    • Algorithm
    • Brief Algorithm Comparison
    • Interface
  • Implementation
    • Standards
    • Target Platforms
    • Code Organization
    • Code Walk
  • Deployment
• Results
  • Visual Comparison
  • Geometric Error
  • Time Taken to Decimate
    • Computers Used
    • Time Test Results
• Analysis
  • Visual Analysis
    • Edge Detection
    • Simplifying Models
    • Smooth Shading
  • Geometric Error
  • Computing Platform
  • Computational Complexity
  • Final Analysis
• Conclusions and Recommendations
  • Conclusions
    • Design
    • Implementation and Deployment
  • Recommendations
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• About this document ...