TRIANGLE MESH COMPRESSION

Triangle mesh compression. In one embodiment, a method first generates a dual graph from a triangle mesh. The method then generates a binary tree structure from the dual graph. In one embodiment, generation of the tree structure includes removing a node of the dual graph from a stack, adding the node to a list, and determining node connections. Upon determining that there are two connections, the method adds an edge to the structure and adds a connected-to node to the stack. Upon determining that there are three connections, the method adds a branch to the structure, and adds a first and a second connected-to node to the stack.