Surface decimation with global error control and multiresolution output management

The paper presents the first results of our project on surface simplification. A new solution. JADE (Just Another DEcimator), is presented. It enhances the Mesh Decimation approach by providing better approximation precision and multiresolution output management. Results are reported on empirical time complexity, approximation quality, and simplification power. Moreover, we show that with a small increase in memory, which is needed to store the mu1tiresolution data representation, we are able to extract at run time any level of detail representation in an extremely efficient way.