For this exercise I'd like you to look at some of Hogues Hoppe's Work. Watch the video, and then try to read/skim the papers related to mesh simplification. You can choose any, but here are a few of interest.

https://hhoppe.com/proj/pm/  https://hhoppe.com/pm.pdf (1996) https://hhoppe.com/proj/vdrpm/  https://hhoppe.com/vdrpm.pdf (1997) https://hhoppe.com/efficientpm.pdf  https://hhoppe.com/proj/pvdrpm/

Record a few notes about what you learned or found interesting here when you complete the activity.