Polygon Mesh

Computer Graphics · Geometry and Intersection · polygon-mesh.yaml

Vertices, edges and faces. Explicit, cheap to rasterize and to intersect, and the representation essentially all hardware is built around.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

This node

• part-ofis a subtopic of Surface Representation

Referenced by

• requiresRasterization does not work without thisit fills projected primitives, not implicit surfaces
• requiresRay-Triangle Intersection does not work without thisthe primitive being intersected
• requiresTexture Mapping does not work without thisneeds a surface parameterization to index into

References

• Background — Polygon mesh on Wikipedia