Multiresolution Mesh Representation: Models and Data Structures

Multiresolution meshes are a common basis for building representations of a geometric shape at dierent levels of detail. The use of the term multiresolution depends on the remark that the accuracy (or, level of detail) of a mesh in approximating a shape is related to the mesh resolution, i.e., to the density (size and number) of its cells. A multiresolution mesh provides several alternative meshbased approximations of a spatial object (e.g., a surface describing the boundary of a solid object, or the graph of a scalar eld)