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Now let's look at a visualization of the algorithm in progress. This is a reduction from about 450 thousand elements to 10 thousand elements. Each bar representations an iteration of the algorithm. The worst quality elements are toward the top of the bar. The elements have been colored by action selected. Early on many edge collapse operations are performed to quickly reduce the size of the model. As the target count is approached the number of elements which cannot be modified within the allowable error increases as the mesh is optimized.