[vtkusers] Volumetric Method for Mesh Generation

[Tim Hutton]

Mmm, if you can get this working in VTK we'd all roll over and making
purring noises. It relies on code for Delaunay, Voronoi etc., most of which
I believe we have already. Issues to do with the GNU licence possibly.

At 14:35 18/01/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks Tim,
>
>I ran across your mention of the Amenta and Bern algorithm in the vtkuser 
>archve so I emailed Marshall Bern and he pointed me to Amenta's website, 
>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/amenta/powercrust/welcome.html  I just 
>downloaded the software but I haven't been able to successfully build it 
>yet to evaluate it.
>
>-Erik
>
>
>At 02:06 PM 1/18/01 +0000, you wrote:
>>Hi Erik,
>>
>>You've seen vtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter, right? The volumetric method 
>>of which you speak is quite similar. I did look briefly at how easy it 
>>would be the integrate Curless' VripPack into VTK, it got shelved.
>>
>>I'm more intrigued by the 98 work of Nina Amenta and Marshall Bern, that 
>>looks really good, it uses the origanal unorganized points as the vertices 
>>of the final mesh.
>>
>>Tim.
>>
>>On Wednesday, January 17, 2001 at 12:41:30 PM, Erik Sobel wrote:
>>
>> > Has anyone implemented a volumetric method for polygon mesh generation 
>> from
>> > clouds of 3D points using VTK - like the method used by Brian Curless at
>> > Univ of Washington.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Erik
>> >
>> >
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