Overview
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The GTGeometry project is a library that contains a set of features to work
with geometry. The library is mainly focused to the generation of LOD models. 
However it also supplies some extra features such as mesh simplification and
stripification.

This project compiles into a static library into:
	build/Debug/GTGeometry_d.lib
	build/Release/GTGeometry.lib


Features
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The features the GTGeometry include are:

- LodStrips: supplies a triangle strips-based LOD model for generic meshes.

--- LodStrips generation: used to generate a LOD model from a plain mesh.

--- LodStrips visualization: runtime module used to include LOD objects 
	into external applications.

- LodTree: supplies a LOD model developed to handle level of detail trees.

--- LodTree generation: used to generate a LOD tree model from a mesh repre- 
	sentation of the tree.

--- LodTree visualization: runtime module used to include LOD tree objects
	into external applications.

- Mesh Simplification: include two simplification algorithms to be used in external 
	applications. They are also used to generate the LOD models.

--- Geometry-based simplification: supplies a simplification algorithm designed 
	for game meshes: it can handle sub-meshes and vertex repetitions in the	mesh.

--- Viewpoint-driven simplification: provides a simplification algorithm which uses
	a visual error metric. This is slower than the geometry-based one, but offers
	more accurate results.
	
- Foliage simplification: offers a foliage simplification algorithm based on leaf
	collapse operations. This is used internally by the LodTree generation module.

- Stripification: offers a stripification utility. This is used internally by the 
	LodStrips generation module.


Usage
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To compile the GTGeometry library into an application, the needed files in 
	GTGeometry/include
must be included, and the library GTGeometry{_d}.lib must be statically linked.