Tae Hwa Han , Jun Chul Chun

The KIPS Transactions:PartA, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 365-372, Oct. 2004
10.3745/KIPSTA.2004.11.5.365,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Recently, the studies for mesh simplification have been increased according to the application area of the complicate 3D mesh models has been expanded. This paper introduces a novel method for mesh simplification which uses the properties of the mesh model in addition to the geometric locations of the model. The information of the 3D mesh model includes surface properties such as color, texture, and curvature information as well as geometic information of the model. The most of current simplification methods adopt such geometric information and surface properties individually for mesh simplification. However, the proposed simplification method combines the geometric information and suface properties and applies them to the simplification process simultaneously. In this paper, we exploit the extended geometry based quadric error metric(QEM) which relatively allows fast and accurate geometric simplification of mesh. Thus, the proposed mesh simplification utilizes the quadric error metric based on geometric information and the surface properties such as color, normal, and texture. The proposed mesh simplification method can be expressed as a simple quadric equation which expands the quadric error metric based on geometric information by adding surface properties such as color, normal, and texture. From the experimental results, the simplification of the mesh model based on the proposed method shows the high fidelity to original model in some respects such as global appearance rather than using current geometry based simplification.

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