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From: Matt Conway <mconway@microsoft.com>
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Subject: RE: extremely hungry for polygons and texels
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:45:29 -0700
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SIGGRAPH 96 is the place to start for progressive meshes. 

Progressive Meshes by Hugues Hoppe 
in: SIGGRAPH '96. Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH 96 conference on Computer
graphics, pages 99-108

and a link in the ACM digital library:
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/graph/237170/p99-hoppe/

Unfortunately, I don't think this is what you think it is -- it is meant to
be a way of reducing the transmission bandwidth requiremements for 3D modles
by allowing a representation that can be downloaded incrementally.
Basically, this is level-of-detail rendering done automatically and done
continuously (compared to the discrete LOD stuff that is out there today). 

For what you're looking for, look for "non-photorealistic rendering" 


> Say, were can I find more about progressive meshes and so 
> on?? Architects
> would really benefit from viewing a design (at a certain 
> moment) in a more
> approximate way. Sometimes, design solutions do not work out and an
> architect wants to return to an approximate level, for the 
> same reason as
> the case of approximity I described above. In that case 
> anti-progressive
> (sorry, don't know the right word..) meshes or wavelets (??) 
> could work.
> 
> Ok, that is it - I should keep it short :-)
> 
>   -Ernst
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