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| Function | LtPrim
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| Synopsis |
Strip all non-essential edges, polygons and vertices from a polymesh
primitive.
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| Location | ligeops | |||||||||
| Parameters |
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| Return Value |
A simplified primitive, NULL if something went wrong.
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| Description |
The polymesh passed in as input is simplified by this function.
All polygon edges which can safely be removed are removed from the mesh.
Edges which will be left include those which form part of the external
boundary of the mesh (although some of these may be merged together
for long boundary sections comprising several co-linear edges).
Bridging edges which are needed to connect together different loops
of polygons are also left in the mesh. Finally any edge which the
function classifies as "sharp" will be left. Here "sharp" means that
the polygons on each side of the edge are adjudged to have different
plane equations. A new control variable is used to control how
strictly this criterion is adhered to:
Note that only primitives of type LI_PRIM_TYPE_MESH can be passed as input to this function. If the original geometry is to be kept then the keep_input argument should be set to TRUE. If this is done then a copy of the input geometry will be made internally and it is this copy which will be simplified. If keep_input is FALSE then the input geometry itself will be modified. | |||||||||
| See Also |
LiPrimitiveReferenceSimplifyMesh
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