A novel approach to extract triangle strips for iso-surfaces in volumes

Proceedings VRCAI 2004 - ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 239-245

  Lakshmipathy, Jagannathan ^a   Nowinski, Wieslaw L ^b   Wernert, Eric A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Iso surfacc; Iso value; Marching Cubes; Sub surfaces; Triangle strips

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ISO-SURFACE; ISOVALUE; MARCHING CUBES; TRIANGLE STRIPS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 10044294982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1044588.1044639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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