Stanford's Lucy

This was an exercise in large model simplification. The original has 28 mio. triangles, this simplified version has been reduced to 460 000. Filesize went from 1.4 GB to 21 MB. Taken from the Stanford 3D scanning site (graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/). The Stanford CGL asks that this model not be transfomed, morphed etc.The original file was not manifold, making a straightforward simplification in MeshLab (see www.thingiverse.com/thing:40632) difficult. As a workaround, the statue was subsampled to 500K points in CloudCompare (www.danielgm.net/cc/). A reconstrucion of the resulting point-cloud should be possible with the poisson-reconstruction function in CloudCompare. As I am more familiar in Meshlab, I used that instead.