From cdshaw@umbilicus.artsci.washington.edu Thu May 28 13:26:44 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA28346 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 13:26:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (2YT4cIDfSijjUetH13Ay3O1NMXEMi+bS@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA15660 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 13:26:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from umbilicus.artsci.washington.edu (umbilicus.artsci.washington.edu [128.95.248.206]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA26928 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Thu, 28 May 1998 10:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cdshaw@localhost) by umbilicus.artsci.washington.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/8.6.10) id KAA14722 for 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu; Thu, 28 May 1998 10:26:15 -0700 From: Chris Shaw Message-Id: <199805281726.KAA14722@umbilicus.artsci.washington.edu> Subject: Re: LOD in architecture To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:26:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970428132911.0ebf857a@pop.cc.ruu.nl> from "Ernst Kruijff" at May 28, 98 01:33:27 pm Reply-To: cdshaw@cs.URegina.ca X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO > Ernst said: > About LOD: architects have a bit of different view on LOD than CG people.. > LOD is often reffered to as returning to a higher instance in a type > instance tree, during top down design. This can hardly be dealed with, with > a rendering technique, since it far more is dependable on a object grammar. Are you saying that there's a semantic difference in Levels Of Detail in the architecture world that makes Computer-Graphics/Flight Sim LOD management hard to do? How many levels of detail would you typically see in an architectural setup? > far more is dependable on a object grammar. Is this a small matter of writing the appropriate grammar interpreter, or is there more to it than that? -- Chris Shaw University of Regina cdshaw@cs.URegina.ca Assistant Professor http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~cdshaw