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Survey of Polygonal Surface Simplification Algorithms (1997)  (Make Corrections)  (112 citations)
Paul S. Heckbert, Michael Garland



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Abstract: This paper surveys methods for simplifying and approximating polygonal surfaces. A polygonal surface is a piecewiselinear surface in 3-D defined by a set of polygons (Update)

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Heckbert, P., and Garland, M. Survey of polygonal surface simplification algorithms. Tech. Rep. CMU-CS-95-194, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/heckbert97survey.html   More

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