Title :
Connectivity compression for three-dimensional planar triangle meshes
Author :
Kubola, Kanuengnij ; Chu, Henry
Author_Institution :
Center for Adv. Comput. Studies, The Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA, USA
Abstract :
We describe a new algorithm for coding the connectivity information of three-dimensional planar triangle meshes. Vertices of a mesh are placed on a two-dimensional grid. The connectivity pattern of the grid is implicit and hence the only information that needs to be encoded is the diagonal links. We present experimental results that show that the new method has a low connectivity cost of 2.1 bits per vertex on average.
Keywords :
data compression; mesh generation; 3D planar triangle meshes; connectivity compression; connectivity pattern; Computer displays; Costs; Encoding; Graphics; Hardware; Layout; Rendering (computer graphics); Surveillance; Telemedicine; Three dimensional displays;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualisation, 2005. Proceedings. Ninth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2397-8
