It Begins

Now that my specification has been finalised and submitted, I have begun to review some of the level of detail(LOD) techniques in use. For this I have been reading Level of Detail for 3D Graphics, ISBN: 1-55860-838-9. The book is providing a very high level overview but most importantly, it has provided me with references to what sound like very promising papers on some techniques for offline LOD generation such as a paper titled Mesh Optimization by Hoppe H, T DeRose, T Duchamp, J McDonald and W Stuetzle from the 1993 SIGGRAPH conference. Over the next week I will try and get copies of these papers and begin reading them.