Creating a stairstepped effect ala "bitcrushing" w. jit.gl.mesh?

Do you have an example of what this would kind of look like? I know 'bitcrushing' in audio, but I honnestly don't have any idea of what you want to do. I have some images in my mind, but I'm not at all sure if they are even close to what you want to do,...

One thing I think of is quantizing vertex positions to a fixed interval value ([jit.op @op round] or something in that vain). But then I can't really picture what you 're after right now.

PARDON MY SHITTY DRAWING SKILLZ:

http://i.imgur.com/sPQMhIm.jpg
@dtr yeah that's the same dimop doesish - I've tried to explain the difference in my drawing.
What I'm looking for is to make the geometry somehow squared off, which means the algorithm has to add extra points - sort of how if you want a vertical line in [function], you have to put in a top and a bottom, if you get my meaning?

*and thanks a billion for helping me out - visually this would absolutely rock.

It looks like to go from your first curved line to the stepped one you could cook up a sort of quantizing algo. Keep every n-th vertex intact. The ones in between quantize to y of vertex(n-1) and x of vertex(n). This is in 2d like your drawing, extrapolate for 3d. This way you keep the original vertex count, which is handy cause vertex ordering is tricky with jit.gl.mesh, in my experience. Could be done in jit.expr or jit.gen I think.

yeah, perhaps alternate between intact verteces and ones that are snapped to 1 or 2 of the coords of the next vertex.

Sheesh. I think my head is spinning.

Hi, guys. To me, more than a bitcrushing effect, it looks like a typical "Sample & Hold" digitalization process. I think that your assumptions for the 2D example are correct but the implications for doing it in 3D seem somewhat tricky...

Can you use an alternative approach for obtaining this kind of "Minecraft look"?

Thanks for chiming in, Pedro!
haha, while that is really cool-looking, the stuff I'm working on is more along the lines of the pic I'm posting below, and I think redrawing it in that manner would be really odd, hehe. I like the flat banner-like element of it, still.

So yeah, I'm trying to work out how to grab x % of the verteces, and infuse them with, for instance, the x and z coord of the previous coord. Or the one coming after.

Pedro, I know the structure of the 3d equivalent of my drawing is really tricky. I'm not looking to sample pos at different places and hold them, as a sample and hold would, although the analogy is solid.

If anything I'm hoping to perhaps quantize positions to a grid, for instance?

Could that happen? Simply saying "this is a cube of positions available to you - 16*16*16 or whatever. Any coord will snap to the nearest?