Research Article

Fast Mesh Simplification Method for Three-Dimensional Geometric Models with Feature-Preserving Efficiency

Table 3

Statistics of geometrical information of dragon models simplified by the two methods.

Triangles remainedThe new methodOpenMesh
Vertexes remainedSize (kb)Vertexes remainedSize (kb)

42,00020,3401,382293151,825
38,20018,4251,249273711,763
34,20016,4551,112253331,698
30,60014,737991235021,640
26,60012,777855214491,575
22,30010,719702192921,506