Re: using varying res models at varying distance

[James W. W. <ja...@wr...>]

Keith Wiley <kw...@cs...> wrote:

>I have in mind a similar idea for model geometry.  Any "kind of object"
>would have multiple trimesh models that can represent it, with varying
>degrees of detail: number of vertices, edges, triangles, etc.  Depending
>on the distance an object is from the camera, the program would use the
>proper model for that distance and not use the other models for that
>object, so very low res models in the distance and high res in the
>foreground.

One aspect of this is that Quesa has subdivision styles, one of which 
is by screen space.  However, most of Quesa's geometries do not 
actually implement screen space subdivision, as I noted in bug 967880.
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