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    Area of Science:

    • Computer Graphics
    • Computational Geometry
    • Scientific Visualization

    Background:

    • Interactive visualization relies on mesh simplification to create lower-resolution models from complex data.
    • Preserving topological features, including embedded structures, is crucial for maintaining data integrity during simplification.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To provide a formal proof that link conditions are sufficient for preserving topology during mesh simplification.
    • To establish the necessity of these link conditions for topology preservation, barring specific configurations.

    Main Methods:

    • The study analyzes edge contraction operations on meshes with embedded structures.
    • It formally proves the sufficiency of previously proposed link conditions for topology preservation.
    • Investigates the necessity of these conditions, identifying exceptions.

    Main Results:

    • Link conditions are proven sufficient to preserve both domain and embedded structure topology during edge contraction.
    • These conditions are also necessary for topology preservation, except in two identified configurations.
    • An extended quadric error metric schedules edge contractions for high-quality mesh approximation.

    Conclusions:

    • The established link conditions provide a robust method for topology-preserving mesh simplification.
    • This technique ensures that crucial embedded structures are accurately represented in simplified models.
    • The approach yields high-quality coarse meshes suitable for interactive visualization applications.