Definition:Mesh is a 3D object representation consisting of a collection of vertices and polygons.
The 3D object representation can be a polygon mesh, which consists of a collection of vertices and polygons that define the shape of an object in 3D (Figure 1). To benefit from current 3D graphic cards hardware acceleration polygon meshes usually contain only triangles because the hardware is optimized for triangle mesh computation.
Polygon mesh corresponding to a human face.
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J. Rossignac, “Edgebreaker: Connectivity Compression for Triangle Meshes,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 47–61, 1999.
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(2006). Mesh, 3D. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30038-4_126
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