Marching Cubes created: May 2000, updated: November 2001 | ||||||
Using the Open Inventor libraries I created a subclass of SoEnginefor computing an isosurface using Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm, byWilliam Lorensen and Harvey E. Cline. This implementation isVERY different from a previous version posted on this site. This version properly subclasses Open Inventor and efficiently creates an isosurface. The tables provided in the code found at Paul Bourke's page Polygonising a scalar field were used in this implementation. The engine takes as input a scalar field and an isovalue. Then as output are the points, normals, and indexes into the points array used to create the triangles. The engine can easily be connected to other Inventor nodes to create an SoIndexedFaceSet. Below is an example of connecting the engine into a scene graph. // create MarchingCubes object and connect fields MarchingCubes *mcubes = new MarchingCubes(); mcubes->ref(); mcubes->data.setValue(dims, data); mcubes->isoValue = 1.0; // MarchingCubes gives the triangles with the // vertices ordered clockwise SoShapeHints *hints = new SoShapeHints(); hints->vertexOrdering. setValue(SoShapeHints::CLOCKWISE); root->addChild(hints); // connect the MarchingCubes points and // normals to an SoVertexProperty node SoVertexProperty *vprop = new SoVertexProperty(); vprop->ref(); vprop->vertex.connectFrom(&mcubes->points); vprop->normal.connectFrom(&mcubes->normals); // connect the indexes from MarchingCubes SoIndexedFaceSet *faceSet = new SoIndexedFaceSet(); faceSet->vertexProperty = vprop; faceSet->coordIndex.connectFrom(&mcubes->indexes); root->addChild(faceSet);Thanks to Gokhan Kisacikoglu, a vertex blending technique was added. The blending is nothing but a simple test to the closest voxel corner based on a percentage from the corner. Below is an example with the blending and without. Also a gif animation showing the blending can be found here.
The MarchingCubes engine was used to create all the images on this page. Below are links to the MarchingCubes source code as well as an example which creates a sphere dataset and displays it with the engine node. (TheSFScalarField class is needed by MarchingCubes.)
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