Polygon soup
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Polygon soup
A Polygon soup is a group of unorganized triangles, with generally no relationship whatsoever.[1] Polygon soups are the default output format when geometry is exported from a 3D modeling package, such as Maya or Blender. As soon as any kind of hierarchical sorting or clustering scheme is applied, then it becomes something else (one example being an octree, a subdivided cube). Any kind of polygonal geometry that hasn't been grouped in any way can be considered polygon soup. Optimized meshes may contain grouped items to make drawing faster.
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- ^ GameDev.net (2010). "GameDev.net – What's a polygon soup?". [1]. http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=99076. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
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