Lecture 8: Mesh Representations and Geometry Processing (56)
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In the top image, the mesh is comprised of triangles, whereas in the bottom one, it is made of quads. Although we seem to be talking about triangles a lot in this course, there are still people who advocate for using quads in 3D modeling applications due to subdivision smoothing, such as in this stack overflow post: https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/5465/why-are-quads-used-in-filmmaking-and-triangle-in-gaming/5466.
In the top image, the mesh is comprised of triangles, whereas in the bottom one, it is made of quads. Although we seem to be talking about triangles a lot in this course, there are still people who advocate for using quads in 3D modeling applications due to subdivision smoothing, such as in this stack overflow post: https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/5465/why-are-quads-used-in-filmmaking-and-triangle-in-gaming/5466.