CIS 888.J14

High Performance Visualization and Interactive Computer Graphics

                             Geometry Simplification and Compression

                                                            Summer 2001

Instructor:                 Dr. Han-Wei Shen
Meeting Time:          Wednesday 1pm
Meeting Place:         DL 698

Papers:

• [1] A Developer's Survey of Polygonal Simplification Algorithms, David P. Lueke IEEE CG&A, May/June, 2001 [pdf]
• [2] Topology Preserving Edge Contraction, Tamal Dey and Herbert Edelsbrunner, [pdf]
• [3] Decimation of Triangle Meshes, W. Schroeder, J. Zarge, and W. Lorenson, ACM SIGGRAPH'92 [pdf]
• [4] Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics, M. Garland and P. Heckbert, ACM SIGGRAPH'97 [pdf]
• [5] Voxel-Based Object Simplification, T. He et al, IEEE Visualization '95, [pdf]
• [6] Simplification Envelopes, J. Cohen et al, ACM SIGGRAPH 96, [pdf]
• [7] Appearance Perserving Simplification, J. Cohen et al, ACM SIGGRAPH 98, [pdf]
• [8] View-Dependent Simplification of Arbitrary Polygonal Environment, D. Luebke and C. Erikson , ACM SIGGRAPH'97[pdf]
• [9] Out-of-Core Simplification of Large Polygonal Models, P. Lindstrom, ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, [pdf]
• [10] Image-Driven Simplification, P. Lindstrom and G. Turk, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol.19, no. 3, [pdf]
• [11] Geometric Compression, M. Deering, ACM SIGGRAPH 95, pdf]

• More to come ...

      Thesis: Peter Lindstrom
       Michael Garland's home page
       Large Geometric Models Archive at Georgia Tech

Presentors:

6/27/01:  Han-Wei Shen,  A Developer's Survey of Polygonal Simplification Algorithms [1].  [ppt slides]
7/05/01:  Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Topology Preserving Edge Contraction [2] [ppt slides]
7/11/01:  Udeepta Bordoloi: Voxel-Based Object Simplification [5] [ppt slides]
7/18/01:  Xinyue Li : Surface Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics [4] [ppt slides]
7/25/01:  Jinzhu Gao : Out-of-Core Simplification of Large Polygonal Models [9] [pdf slides]
8/01/01:  Guangfeng Ji: Decimation of Triangle Meshes [3] [ppt slides]
8/08/01:  Wei Pang: Geometry Compression [11]
8/15/01:  No Class, SIGGRAPH 2001 Los Angeles
8/22/01:  Jon Woodring: Appearence Perserving Simplication  [7]
8/29/01   Brad Umbaugh: View-Dependent Simplification of Arbitrary Polygonal Environments  [8]
8/29/01   Tony Garcia  (time may change):