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When All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail
Isosurface construction is a core
algorithm for any visualization system.
Although Marching Cubes is associated
with medical image surface
construction, the technique has found
widespread use in other scientific
visualization applications.
This course went beyond these accepted
roles for the algorithm and presents
applications in CAD, image fusion,
graphics, and entertainment. It
emphasized the divide-and-conquer
approach championed by Marching
Cubes and showed how to extend the
original concepts to other cell types,
higher dimensions, and geometric
clipping. All examples were illustrated
using the publicly available (via ftp)
Visualization Toolkit.
The
software runs on Unix,
Linux, and Windows 95/98/NT. The
software can be used from C++, tcl,
python or Java.
Organizer
William Lorensen
General Electric Company
Lecturer
William Lorensen
General Electric Company
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