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16th IEEE Visualization 2005 (VIS 2005)
Marching Diamonds for Unstructured Meshes
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 23-October 28
ISBN: 0-7803-9462-3
John C. Anderson, University of California, Davis
Janine C. Bennett, University of California, Davis
Kenneth I. Joy, University of California, Davis
We present a higher-order approach to the extraction of isosurfaces from unstructured meshes. Existing methods use linear interpolation along each mesh edge to find isosurface intersections. In contrast, our method determines intersections by performing barycentric interpolation over diamonds formed by the tetrahedra incident to each edge. Our method produces smoother, more accurate isosurfaces. Additionally, interpolating over diamonds, rather than linearly interpolating edge endpoints, enables us to identify up to two isosurface intersections per edge. This paper details how our new technique extracts isopoints, and presents a simple connection strategy for forming a triangle mesh isosurface.
Index Terms:
isosurface extraction, interpolation, unstructured mesh
Citation:
John C. Anderson, Janine C. Bennett, Kenneth I. Joy, "Marching Diamonds for Unstructured Meshes," ieee_vis, pp.54, 16th IEEE Visualization 2005 (VIS 2005), 2005
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