NOTE: Sections 1 - 3 describe our work up until Friday 05/19. Sections 4 and 5 describe changes made to our project on Saturday and Sunday.
In this project, we were tasked with implementing progressive meshes. Progressive meshes allow us to simplify (and revert) the complexity of meshes at runtime, allowing for the general shape to be preserved but at a much lower computational cost due to the reduced face count. While there is no point in doing this when an object is up close, it is particularly useful to reduce the meshes of objects when they are very far away, where one cannot observe miniscule fine details.
In this blog post, we will explain the workings behind our implementation. The Windows executable (along with necessary .dll files) can be downloaded here.
0. Project intro
In this project, we were tasked with implementing progressive meshes. Progressive meshes allow us to simplify (and revert) the complexity of meshes at runtime, allowing for the general shape to be preserved but at a much lower computational cost due to the reduced face count. While there is no point in doing this when an object is up close, it is particularly useful to reduce the meshes of objects when they are very far away, where one cannot observe miniscule fine details.
In this blog post, we will explain the workings behind our implementation. The Windows executable (along with necessary .dll files) can be downloaded here.
