Re: [Algorithms] VIPM and UV texturing

[Angel P. <ju...@bi...>]

> Hey all,
> 
> For those of you who are using/experimenting with VIPM, how are you
> generating your texture coords when the mesh is reduced ?  Do you all assume
> planar mapping or what ?
> Any info or discussion on this topic would be appreciated.

This paper by Michael Garland and Paul Heckbert:
"Simplifying Surfaces with Color and Texture using Quadric Error Metrics"
explains an extention to the standart quadratic error metrics alghotithm for
meshes with apearance attributes (texture coordinates, color, normals... )

If you are not familiar with QEM - read this paper first:
"Surface Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics"

Both papers are avaiable at
http://graphics.cs.uiuc.edu/~garland/research/quadrics.html

A more efficient implementation was developped by Hugues Hoppe:
"New quadric metric for simplifying meshes with appearance attributes"
This paper can be found at
http://www.research.microsoft.com/~hoppe/