Progressive Polygon Mesh Compression - PPMC
Presentation
PPMC is a progressive mesh compression algorithm. Unlike previous approaches, it can compress manifold meshes with arbitrary face degrees. This software is the author implementation of the algorithm presented in the article "Progressive Compression of Surface Polygon Meshes" (see my publication page). It is released under the GPL v3 license.
Please note that that is research code. It is only provided as a proof of concept of the ideas described in the research paper. The quality and the performances of this program can certainly be improved.
Download
You can download the source code here. For now, it has only been tested on Linux 64 bits.
Instructions about the compilation and the usage are in the README file of the source archive.
Screen captures
Here are two screen captures of the PPMC GUI (--gui option).
Initial mesh before the compression.
One level of details of the compressed mesh.
Acknowledgements
This work was initially supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR) through COSINUS program (project COLLAVIZ n◦ ANR-08-COSI-003, see http://www.collaviz.org).