Thursday, April 9, 2015

Visitors and Polyhedra

Today I gave a talk for a few high school students and teachers visiting GMU from a local high school. I wanted to explain how every 3D model is stored as a polyhedron. For example, the simple heart


is stored as an object


consisting of a large number of  vertices  


a large number of edges
 

and a large number of  faces
In particular, even the simple heart has 7852 vertices and 15700 faces!

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