Geometric Modeling

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)

Efficient implementation of marching cubes cases with topological guarantees
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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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@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           = {https://thomas.lewiner.org/pdfs/marching_cubes_jgt.pdf}
}
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