Patent ID: 7218322

Claim:
A method for providing a fine-to-coarse look ahead in connection with parametrization in a graphics system, comprising: parametrizing at least one chart of a mesh utilizing a parametrization metric that generates and optimizes a plurality of metric values for said mesh, wherein parametrization is defined as a one-to-one mapping between all points of a mesh and all points in the corresponding parametric domain and wherein the parametrization metric is based upon a function of at least one characteristic of the mesh; and generating a sequence of meshes in a multiresolution representation having a plurality of level of detail mesh approximations ranging from a coarsest level of detail approximation to a finest level of detail approximation for said at least one chart based upon at least said plurality of metric values, wherein the finest level of detail concerning said at least one characteristic of the mesh is taken into account while generating the parametrizations for level of detail approximations coarser than said finest level of detail approximation.