Dealing with Shape Complexity for Internet Access and Graphic Applications

Standard representations of 3D models are so verbose that only very simple models can be accessed over common communication links for immediate viewing. This situation is not likely to improve, since the need for more accurate 3D models and their deployment throughout a broader spectrum of industrial, scientific, and consumer application areas will outpace the improvements in transmission bandwidth to the office, home, or mobile worker or private user. Recently developed multi-resolution modeling technologies play an important role in addressing this bandwidth bottleneck, especially when combined with other approaches, such as intelligent culling, pre-fetching, and image-based rendering. This tutorial will discuss the details of compression, simplification, and progressive transmission techniques and of their interrelations.

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