hultquis@unc.cs.unc.edu (Jeffrey P. Hultquist) (06/03/87)
The results from the "how big is a database?" survey are in, and the moral is that polygon counts are very slippery ... > From: David Zeltzer <dz@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> > > "george" is a human skeleton database created by don stredney, and > animated by myself as part of my graduate work done at the computer > graphics research group at ohio state university in '83 & '84. george > consists of about 20k polygons. for example, his skull consists of > about 1900 points & 2000 polys; his pelvis ~1300 points and ~1900 > polys. george is almost, but not quite, fully articulated. i.e., > most of the large bonesare controllable as separate objects, but many > small bones in the hands and feet are grouped together as single objects. > note that i'm happy to supply this information for your survey, but > the database is not available for general distribution. > From julian@riacs.edu (Julian Gomez) > > I think the Chrysler is actually described with Bezier patches. > > The Pysanka (Resch's Ukrainian Easter Egg) has 3552 polygons. > George the skeleton from Ohio State has about 18000. The Chrysler *may* have been described with patches, but here at UNC, we have a copy built from 70,000 triangles. Of course, if you had access to the patches, you could make an even bigger database! :-) > From: nick@tranc2 (Nick England) > > GEHAUSE test part - approx. 600 polygons Hmmm ... I have drawn the "gehause" (also known as the MBB) myself, using data in a CSG representation. Once again, the same "data" and as many polygons as you would like. Further messiness ... an interview of Whitney and Demos at Digital Productions (CG+A, July 1984, pp. 7-8) says that the "Gunstar" contains 648,000 polygons, and the *average* frame contains a quarter-million. (The cover of this issue shows a number of these ships, almost certainly digitally composited. If I matte a number of images together, should I add the polygon counts of each cel? Well ... probably not, but maybe so.) Finally, several folks have requested copies of the "Gunstar." I can't help you; I don't have a copy either. -- Jeff P.M. Hultquist decvax!mcnc!unc!hultquis UNC Chapel Hill / Comp Sci hultquis@cs.unc.edu