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

[Pai-Hung C. <pa...@ac...>]

Hi,

> VIPM is where your collapse order is fixed - the only thing the observer's
> position does is choose how many tris to expand/collapse to.
> VDPM varies the order of collapse depending on where the view is, so bits
> further away from the camera get collapsed before bits near the camera -
> stuff like that.

Does this mean VIPM collapses polys *evenly* across the whole mesh so that
polys get the same degree of collapse regardless of their distance to the
viewpoint, while in VDPM farer polys are collapsed more heavily than nearer
polys?

Thank you,

Pai-Hung Chen