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Simplification Examples

Figure 8 demonstrates the simplification of a lower resolution isosurface of the head of the Visible Woman. An error bound of less than 1% of the representative size of the surface (maximum diameter) yields a simplification by greater than an order of magnitude.

  
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Figure 8: Original female head (275048 triangles) and simplified model (24211 triangles)



Dan Schikore
Fri Oct 4 13:30:14 EST 1996