SURFACE CONSTRUCTION USING TRICOLOR MARCHING CUBES

Shaojun Liu, Jia Li, Xiaojun Jing

2006

Abstract

This paper presents a generalized marching cubes (MC) method for 3D surface construction. Existing MC methods require the sample values at cell vertices to be different from the threshold or modify them otherwise. The modification may introduce topological changes to the constructed surface. The proposed Tricolor MC method allows cell vertices with sample values which equal the threshold to lie on the surface. It constructs the surface patches by exhausting the Eulerian circuits in the cells without changing sample values. The simulation results show that the TMC method better preserves the topology of the surfaces that pass through cell vertices and gives good results in other general cases.

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in Harvard Style

Liu S., Li J. and Jing X. (2006). SURFACE CONSTRUCTION USING TRICOLOR MARCHING CUBES . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, ISBN 972-8865-39-2, pages 319-324. DOI: 10.5220/0001350703190324


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp06,
author={Shaojun Liu and Jia Li and Xiaojun Jing},
title={SURFACE CONSTRUCTION USING TRICOLOR MARCHING CUBES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={319-324},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001350703190324},
isbn={972-8865-39-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,
TI - SURFACE CONSTRUCTION USING TRICOLOR MARCHING CUBES
SN - 972-8865-39-2
AU - Liu S.
AU - Li J.
AU - Jing X.
PY - 2006
SP - 319
EP - 324
DO - 10.5220/0001350703190324