Fast Generation and Display of Iso-Surface Wireframes

Michael J Laszlo

doi:10.1016/1049-9652(92)90067-8

Fast Generation and Display of Iso-Surface Wireframes

Michael J Laszlo

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The paper presents a method for generating and displaying wireframe approximations to surfaces of constant value (or iso-surfaces ). Input to the method is a data grid , a volume decomposition with each of whose vertices is associated a scalar value. During a preprocessing phase, the method constructs a threshold-independent data structure based upon the given data grid. The data structure relates the edges of an iso-surface wireframe to the edges of the data grid, for all possible threshold values. During the subsequent rendering phase, the data structure supports efficient generation and display of the iso-surface wireframe corresponding to any selected threshold value. The technique is efficient enough to form the basis for an interactive software system for visualizing iso-surfaces.

Original language	American English
Journal	CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing
Volume	54
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/1049-9652(92)90067-8
State	Published - Nov 1 1992

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