[Numpy-discussion] OT: A Way to Approximate and Compress a 3D Surface

[Christopher Barker]

Anne Archibald wrote:
>In particular it looks like VTK might be able
> to do what you want.

yes, it can. The way I've seen is to triangulate the surface, then do 
"decimation" -- remove the triangles that don't add "much" to the detail 
of the surface. I don't know of a way to do something similar keeping 
the Cartesian grid -- but you may not need to.

Google "python triangle decimation" and VTK comes out on top, but there 
are some other things there that might be of interest too.

-Chris



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