[Imstk-developers] Draco Mesh compression

[Alexis Girault]

I was not thinking of runtime but load time: right now meshes are really
slow to read, which is a reason why Nich has been investigating Assimp.

Alexis Girault
R&D Engineer in Medical Computing
Kitware, Inc.

http://www.kitware.com
(919) 969-6990 x325

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Sreekanth Arikatla <
sreekanth.arikatla at kitware.com> wrote:

> I've tried to do cloth simulation with remote interaction using discrete
> cosine transforms in the past but got mixed results! Draco could be worth
> trying.
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Sreekanth Arikatla <
> sreekanth.arikatla at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Might not be useful for regular applications in imstk. The only use I can
>> see is for simulation in server-client setting for telesurgery!
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Alexis Girault <
>> alexis.girault at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nowadays with a good SSD it is usually faster to have uncompressed data
>>> and read it from disk, than compressed data that needs to be inflated.
>>>
>>> However it could be interesting to look into draco (came up during
>>> discussions at Kitware):
>>> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/introducing-draco-
>>> compression-for-3d.html
>>> https://github.com/google/draco
>>>
>>> Anybody heard of it before?
>>>
>>> Alexis Girault
>>> R&D Engineer in Medical Computing
>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>
>>> http://www.kitware.com
>>> (919) 969-6990 x325
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Sreekanth Arikatla, Ph.D.,
>> Senior R&D Engineer,
>> Kitware, Inc. <http://www.kitware.com>, Carrboro, NC.
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Sreekanth Arikatla, Ph.D.,
> Senior R&D Engineer,
> Kitware, Inc. <http://www.kitware.com>, Carrboro, NC.
>
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