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

[Daniel R. <dan...@ho...>]

>From: "Pai-Hung Chen" <pa...@ac...>
>Reply-To: gda...@li...
>To: <gda...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [Algorithms] View-Depend vs. View-Independent LOD
>Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:26:06 -0700
>
>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?

exactly, this is one of the typical behaviours

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