Dual Marching Cubes: Primal Contouring of Dual Grids Conference Paper

abstract

• We present a method for contouring an implicit function using a grid topologically dual to structured grids such as octrees. By aligning the vertices of the dual grid with the features of the implicit function, we are able to reproduce thin features of the extracted surface without excessive sub-division required by methods such as Marching Cubes or Dual Contouring. Dual Marching Cubes produces a crack-free, adaptive polygonalization of the surface that reproduces sharp features. Our approach maintains the advantage of using structured grids for operations such as CSG while being able to conform to the relevant features of the implicit function yielding much sparser polygonalizations than has been possible using structured grids. 2004 IEEE.

name of conference

• 12th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, 2004. PG 2004. Proceedings.

authors

• Schaefer, Scott

published proceedings

• 12th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, 2004. PG 2004. Proceedings.

author list (cited authors)

• Schaefer, S., & Warren, J.

citation count

• 48

complete list of authors

• Schaefer, Scott||Warren, Joe

publication date

• January 2004

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings / Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications. Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/pccga.2004.1348336

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 0769522343

start page

• 70

end page

• 76

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pccga.2004.1348336