Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Octrees for faster isosurface generation
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A volumetric method for building complex models from range images
SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Fitting smooth surfaces to dense polygon meshes
SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Octree-based decimation of marching cubes surfaces
Proceedings of the 7th conference on Visualization '96
Surface simplification using quadric error metrics
Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Appearance-preserving simplification
Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A general method for preserving attribute values on simplified meshes
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '98
Adaptively sampled distance fields: a general representation of shape for computer graphics
Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Feature sensitive surface extraction from volume data
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Texture mapping progressive meshes
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Dual contouring of hermite data
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A Survey of Polygonal Simplification Algorithms
A Survey of Polygonal Simplification Algorithms
Dual Contouring with Topology-Preserving Simplification Using Enhanced Cell Representation
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
We describe a method of directly extracting a simplified contour surface along with detailed normal maps from volume data in one fast and integrated process. A robust dual contouring algorithm is used for efficiently extracting a high-quality "crack-free" simplified surface from volume data. As each polygon is generated, the normal map is simultaneously generated. An underlying octree data structure reduces the search space required for high to low resolution surface normal mapping. The process quickly yields simplified meshes fitted with normal maps that accurately resemble their complex equivalents.