[vtkusers] 3D surface generation using marching cube

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 14:15:31 EDT 2013


And
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isosurface



On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Please read this paper:
> http://www.marchingcubes.org/images/f/f9/MarchingCubes.pdf
>
>
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> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Vachik Dave <vsdave at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Sorry I am new to the field. What is isovalue? And how can I determine
>> the value?
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> Regards*.
>> --Vachik Dave*
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Do not use the VoxelModeller if you already have a continuous volume.
>>> Pass your reader output directly to Marching Cubes. You will need to
>>> determine the proper isovalue to extract for your data.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Vachik Dave <vsdave at umail.iu.edu>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Hello, I need to prepare 3D Surface from DICOM files using Marching
>>>> cube algorithm. I am trying to use example available here:
>>>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Modelling/MarchingCubes
>>>>
>>>> steps i fallowed:
>>>>
>>>> 1 - I read DICOM series using vtkDICOMReader:
>>>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadDICOMSeries
>>>>
>>>> 2 - I pass the reader object->GetOutputPort() to vtkVoxelModeler object.
>>>>
>>>> The program doesnt give me any error during execution, but it creates
>>>> blank onpengl window.
>>>> I am using VTK 6.0.0 in Visual Studio 2012.
>>>> Any Suggestion would be helpful.
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards*.
>>>> --Vachik Dave*
>>>>
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