Full Day | Intermediate
This course summarizes the best current techniques for simplifying complex polygonal surface models in order to accelerate rendering. Topics include: use of multiresolution models that describe 3D shapes at multiple levels of detail, and applications in CAD, Web publishing, geographic information systems, computer vision, and virtual reality.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/mcourse97.html
Who Should Attend
Users, developers, and researchers working with complex polygonal models.
Organizer
Paul Heckbert
Carnegie Mellon University
Lecturers
Paul Heckbert
Carnegie Mellon University
Hugues Hoppe
Microsoft Research
Jarek Rossignac
Georgia Institute of Technology
Will Schroeder
GE Corporate R&D Center
Mark Soucy
InnovMetric Software Inc.
Amitabh Varshney
State University of New York at Stony Brook