Efficient implementation of marching cubes cases with topological guarantees

Efficient implementation of marching cubes cases with topological guarantees
Thomas Lewiner, Hélio Lopes, Antônio Wilson Vieira, Geovan Tavares

Journal of Graphics Tools 8(2): pp. 1-15 (december 2003)

Abstract:

Marching Cubes methods first offered visual access to experimental and theoretical data. This method s implementation usually relies on a small lookup table. Many enhancements and optimizations of this method still use it. However, this lookup table can lead to cracks and inconsistent topology. This paper introduces a full implementation of Chernyaev s Marching Cubes 33 method to ensure a topologically correct result. It completes the original paper for the ambiguity resolution and for the feasibility of the implementation.

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Efficient implementation of marching cubes cases with topological guarantees

BibTeX:

@article{marching_cubes_jgt,
    author = {Thomas Lewiner and Hélio Lopes and Antônio Wilson Vieira and Geovan Tavares},
    title = {Efficient implementation of marching cubes cases with topological guarantees},
    year = {2003},
    month = {december},
    journal = {Journal of Graphics Tools},
    volume = {8},
    number = {2},
    pages = {1--15},
    publisher = {A.K.Peters},
    doi = {10.1080/10867651.2003.10487582},
    url = {\url{http://thomas.lewiner.org/pdfs/marching_cubes_jgt.pdf}}
}


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