Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for updating a CAD model. The method and system generate a parameterization of each respective face of at least one FEA model, each respective face of the at least one FEA model corresponds to a respective geometric face of a CAD model to be updated and each face of the at least one FEA model has a respective shape. Next, a respective shape function for at least one face of the at least one FEA model is determined using the respective shape of the at least one face and the corresponding generated parameterization. The determined shape function describes the shape of the at least one face. The CAD model is then updated using the determined shape function.

Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus is disclosed for creating a three-dimensional visual representation of an object having multiple resolutions by retrieving a vertex list for the object, determining a collapse order for the vertices identified in the vertex list, reordering the vertices identified in the vertex list responsive to the determined collapse order, and creating a vertex collapse list responsive to the collapse order, where the vertex collapse list specifies, for a target vertex, a neighbor vertex to collapse to. The vertex list may comprise 3D coordinates of vertices without referring to other vertex attributes or, in alternate embodiments, the vertex list may refer to other vertex attributes such as colors or normals. A runtime manager is disclosed which dynamically manages the polygon counts for objects and frames based upon the location, velocity, and area of the object. Polygon counts are also adjusted based upon a target frame rate and a target polygon count.