Simplification and Repair of Polygonal Models Using Volumetric Techniques

@article{Nooruddin2003SimplificationAR,
  title={Simplification and Repair of Polygonal Models Using Volumetric Techniques},
  author={Fakir S. Nooruddin and Greg Turk},
  journal={IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.},
  year={2003},
  volume={9},
  pages={191-205}
}
Two important tools for manipulating polygonal models are simplification and repair and we present voxel-based methods for performing both of these tasks. We describe a method for converting polygonal models to a volumetric representation in a way that handles models with holes, double walls, and intersecting parts. This allows us to perform polygon model repair simply by converting a model to and from the volumetric domain. We also describe a new topology-altering simplification method that is… 
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