A graphical representation of the state spaces of hierarchical level-of-detail scene descriptions

We present a new graphical representation of the level-of-detail state spaces generated by hierarchical geometric scene descriptions with multiple levels of detail. These level-of-detail graphs permit the analytical investigation of the hierarchical level-ofdetail optimization problem that arises for such descriptions. As an example of their use, we prove the equivalence of two hierarchical level-of-detail algorithms.