[rp-ml] RE: A New Route to Smaller 3-D Files

Sounds interesting. It this very different from mesh decimation (face
reduction)?

/Deelip Menezes

-----Original Message-----
From: Blasch, Larry [mailto:LBlasch@OPW-FC.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:13 PM
To: 'deelip@fpsols.com'; 'rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi'
Subject: A New Route to Smaller 3-D Files

A new way to reduce STL file size?

http://www.usc.edu/dept/engineering/news/2004_stories/2004_06_15_desbrun
.htm
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Graphics Breakthrough Can Benefit Cartoon and Game Creators, Web
Marketers, Virtual Museums and Others

A University of Southern California computer scientist has created a
powerful and elegant algorithm to compress the large and ungainly files
that represent 3-D shapes used in animations, video games and other
computer graphics applications.

Larry Blasch
Design Engineer/CAE Systems Administrator
OPW Fueling Components
P.O. Box 405003
Cincinnati, OH 45240-5003 USA
Voice: (513) 870-3356
Fax: (513) 870-3275
Received on Thu Jun 17 20:29:17 2004