Like all great ideas, someone has thought of this before. This idea was researched quite a bit 10 years ago -before hardware vertex transformation took off and

Like all great ideas, someone has thought of this before. This idea was researched quite a bit 10 years ago -before hardware vertex transformation took off and view dependent LOD was still a hot topic. I haven't heard much about it since then. Here is the only paper I could find in a minute's googling: http://www.svi.cps.utexas.edu/EI466209.pdf http://www.svi.cps.utexas.edu/EI466209.pdf