Ochotta, TiloSaupe, Dietmar2015-02-212015-02-2120081467-8659https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01178.xWe present a generic framework for compression of densely sampled three-dimensional (3D) surfaces in order to satisfy the increasing demand for storing large amounts of 3D content. We decompose a given surface into patches that are parameterized as elevation maps over planar domains and resampled on regular grids. The resulting shaped images are encoded using a state-of-the-art wavelet image coder. We show that our method is not only applicable to mesh- and point-based geometry, but also outperforms current surface encoders for both primitives.10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01178.x1647-1663