[vtkusers] decimating tips while preserving topology

[Hendrik Belitz]

Am Donnerstag, 11. November 2004 11:25 schrieb Michel Audette:
> Hi everyone,
>
> can someone tell me how to maximize the decimation available to vtkDecimate
> and vtkDecimatePro, while still preserving topology? I want to reduce the
> number of triangles to something like .01% to .1%, but even setting the
> target reduction to 1.0 doesn't come close to that.
>
> Please advise,
>
> Michel

Try out vtkQuadricDecimation. The results are quite good (very small meshes, 
topology preserved), at least for my application.

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