Submitted by , posted on 04 September 2003



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This image demonstrates how to achieve dramatic mesh reduction while preserving the visual appearance of objects using GPU programming. The first image shows a 500 facets version of the well known Stanford Bunny. The second image shows a normal-mapped version. Note that the triangles are still visible around the silhouette. The third image shows a normal-mapped version, with Bezier triangles generated by the GPU, using vertex shaders. Note the smooth silhouette.

The normal-map is generated using our LSCM parameterization method. The Bezier triangles are generated using Vlachos's approach.

Credits:
Mesh decimation algorithm: Nicolas Ray
Bezier vertex shader: Wan Chiu Li

Biblio:
- Vlachos, Peters, Boyd, Mitchell, Curved PN Triangles, ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D graphics, 2001
- Levy, Petitjean, Ray, Maillot, Least Squares Conformal Maps, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2002

Links:
Publications and more details can be found in my home page:
http://www.loria.fr/~levy



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