[vtkusers] 3D surface generation using marching cube

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 14:14:47 EDT 2013


Please read this paper:
http://www.marchingcubes.org/images/f/f9/MarchingCubes.pdf



On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Vachik Dave <vsdave at umail.iu.edu> wrote:

> Sorry I am new to the field. What is isovalue? And how can I determine the
> value?
> Thank you.
>
>
> Regards*.
> --Vachik Dave*
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Do not use the VoxelModeller if you already have a continuous volume.
>> Pass your reader output directly to Marching Cubes. You will need to
>> determine the proper isovalue to extract for your data.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Vachik Dave <vsdave at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Hello, I need to prepare 3D Surface from DICOM files using Marching cube
>>> algorithm. I am trying to use example available here:
>>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Modelling/MarchingCubes
>>>
>>> steps i fallowed:
>>>
>>> 1 - I read DICOM series using vtkDICOMReader:
>>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadDICOMSeries
>>>
>>> 2 - I pass the reader object->GetOutputPort() to vtkVoxelModeler object.
>>>
>>> The program doesnt give me any error during execution, but it creates
>>> blank onpengl window.
>>> I am using VTK 6.0.0 in Visual Studio 2012.
>>> Any Suggestion would be helpful.
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards*.
>>> --Vachik Dave*
>>>
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