[vtkusers] Marching Triangles in VTK. What do you think?

[Bill Lorensen]

I think you mean marching tetrahedra..
VTK's contour filter implements marching triangles.


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Rifat Aras <rifat.aras at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear VTK users,
>
> I am interested in comparing different triangulation techniques regarding
> their performance and surface quality outputs.
>
> My focus will be on the "Marching Triangles" algorithm [1]. When I checked
> the literature, I saw papers stating that the MT algorithm being capable of
> creating higher quality triangles with lower computing resources compared
> to the Marching Cubes algorithm.
>
> This being the case, the interesting thing is, I cannot see many MT
> implementations compared to the number of MC implementations. VTK is such
> an example.
>
> Why the VTK does not have an MT implementation (or does it have?) ? Does
> the community think that implementing MT not worth the hassle?
>
> Or let me ask the other way around, would you consider the implementation
> of the MT algorithm a valuable addition to the VTK?
>
> Please let me know what do you think...
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> Rifat Aras
> PhD Candidate
> Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Engineering
> Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
>
> [1] "Marching triangles: Delaunay implicit surface triangulation", A.
> Hilton, J. Illingworth, 1997
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