Re: [Algorithms] View-Depend vs. View-Independent LOD

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Pai-Hung Chen wrote:

> I've heard that there are two kinds of LOD: view-dependent and
> view-independent.  Could somebody briefly explain what the essential
> difference between the two?
 
* View-independent depends only on range to the object.

* View-dependent also depends on the orientation of the object
  with respect to the eye.

Hence, view-independent is generally easier to compute - but
can't reduce the polygon count quite so agressively as
view-dependent LOD can.

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