Cosc422-a1 is a project mainly written in C and C++, it's free.
Building should be as simple as just running make in the main folder. This
will create the program basic which should be called
./basic [path to OFF file]e.g. ./basic models/horse.off to use the model that the report was based off.
All keys listed below must be lowercase when pushed.
Hold down the left mouse button and use the mouse to look around.
Use 'A', 'W', 'S', 'D', 'Z' and the spacebar to move the viewpoint left, forwards, back, right, up and down respectively.
'B': Toggle back-culling of the polygons. Mostly useful when displaying in wireframe mode.
'X': Choose a single edge and collapse it.
'Q': Collapse edges every 50ms until only 50% of the polygons remain.
'E': Toggle showing the collapsed model in wireframe mode.
'R': Toggle showing the original model in wireframe mode.
'F': Toggle which error metric to use, starts at simple and changes to Stan Melax's.
'T': Toggle whether to show the original model.
'P': Reset the collapsed model to the original.
'K': Calculate the current smooth normals of all vertices.
'L': Toggle whether to display the model with the pre-calculated smooth normals.