[vtkusers] Lookup tables used in vtkImageMarchingCubes filter

Bill Lorensen wlorens1 at nycap.rr.com
Wed Jul 7 19:09:02 EDT 2004


It uses the modified lookup table defined in:

Claudio Montani, Riccardo Scateni, and Roberto Scopigno. A modified lookup 
table for implicit disambiguation of marching cubes. The Visual Computer, 
10(6):353-355, 1994.


At 03:24 AM 6/14/2004, Hämäläinen Janne wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We are doing processing on surfaces which requires the surfaces to be
>topologically correct. We are hoping to use the vtkImageMarchingCubes filter
>for constructing the surfaces. It seems, based on the testing we have made
>with the filter, that it uses some kind of corrected version of the original
>Marching cubes lookup table which (as discussed for example in "J.-O.
>Lachaud. Topologically Defined Iso-surfaces. In Proc. 6th Discrete Geometry
>for Computer Imagery (DGCI), volume 1176 of Lecture Notes in Computer
>Science, pages 245 256. Springer-Verlag, 1996.") may produce holes or other
>topological defects in the surface. What kind of lookup table does the
>vtkImageMarchingCubes filter use? Is it published somewhere (we would like
>to refer to an article)?
>
>Cheers, Janne Hämäläinen
>
>
>
>
>--
>Janne Hämäläinen
>Researcher
>Helsinki University Central Hospital
>Department of Radiology
>janne dot hamalainen at hus dot fi
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