Marching Cubes

Computer Graphics · Geometry and Intersection · 1987 · marching-cubes.yaml

Extracts a triangle mesh from a scalar field by table lookup on the sign pattern at each cell's corners. The reason volume data can be handed to ordinary triangle pipelines.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

This node

• alternative-tois a competing approach to Sphere Tracingconverts the field to triangles instead of tracing it

Referenced by

• correctsDual Contouring fixes a defect in thiscorner sign tables cannot reproduce sharp edges

References

• Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm — Lorensen, Cline — 1987 · link
• Background — Marching cubes on Wikipedia