Data Complexity for Virtual Reality: 90 Data Complexity for Virtual Reality: Where do all the Triangles Go?

Screen space rendering statistics were gathered from 150 3D objects, each modeled by between 2K and 40K triangles. While there is wide variance by individual object, the overall trend is that the distribution of triangles by screen size is roughly exponential in the direction of small trian-gles. From a subjective esthetics point of view, tessellations required 10K visible triangles per quarter million pixels covered for acceptable results. The ability of modern computers to simulate the interaction of human senses with the physical world is the technology that makes Virtual Reality possible. It falls to the technology of 3D com-puter graphics to attend to the needs of the most important of these senses: vision. Everything we see in virtual space must be created by computer graphics rendering techniques. Limitations o