Rendering a three-dimensional mesh with a large number of polygons requires an immense amount of computing power. Decimation is the concept of removing a large number of those polygons from the mesh in order to lower the requirements that a computer must maintain in order to render the model. Our project is the implementation and evaluation of a computer program that uses a nontrivial Decimation algorithm to reduce the polygon count of a three dimensional mesh.

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Creator

• Reposa, Jason
• Garthwaite, Timothy John

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 01B034M

Advisor

• Ward, Matthew O.

Year

• 2001

Date created

• 2001-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved