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Marching Cubes without Skinny Triangles
March/April 2009 (vol. 11 no. 2)
pp. 82-87
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Carlos A. Dietrich, Carlos E. Scheidegger, João L.D. Comba, Luciana P. Nedel, Cláudio T. Silva, "Marching Cubes without Skinny Triangles," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 82-87, March/April, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCSE.2009.34,
author = {Carlos A. Dietrich and Carlos E. Scheidegger and João L.D. Comba and Luciana P. Nedel and Cláudio T. Silva},
title = {Marching Cubes without Skinny Triangles},
journal ={Computing in Science and Engineering},
volume = {11},
number = {2},
issn = {1521-9615},
year = {2009},
pages = {82-87},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2009.34},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Carlos E. Scheidegger, University of Utah
João L.D. Comba, Instituto de Informática, UFRGS
Luciana P. Nedel, Instituto de Informática, UFRGS
Cláudio T. Silva, University of Utah
Most computational codes that use irregular grids depend on the single worst triangle's quality: skinny triangles can lead to bad performance and numerical instabilities. Marching cubes (MC) is the standard isosurface grid generation algorithm, and, whereas most triangles it generates are good, it almost always generates some bad triangles. Here, we show how simple changes to MC can lead to a drastically reduced number of degenerate triangles, making it a more practical choice for isosurface grid generation, reducing or eliminating the need for and cost of postprocessing.

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Index Terms:
Isosurfacing, marching cubes, numerical simulation, visualization corner
Citation:
Carlos A. Dietrich, Carlos E. Scheidegger, João L.D. Comba, Luciana P. Nedel, Cláudio T. Silva, "Marching Cubes without Skinny Triangles," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 82-87, March-April 2009, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2009.34
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