[vtkusers] Volumetric Method for Mesh Generation

[Audrius Stundzia]

If this PowerCrust method were to become available in VTK, I'd join Tim 
Hutton in rolling over and making purring noises.

Best regards,

Audrius


>From: Tim Hutton <T.Hutton at eastman.ucl.ac.uk>
>To: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
>Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Volumetric Method for Mesh Generation
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:51:18 +0000
>
>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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> >>
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