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Take a look at the Visualization Toolkit (vtk) at
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~martink/vtkData/WhatIsVTK.html
There you will find all the source code, example data, documentation, etc.
for a quite complete library of C++ code with tcl script bindings which wil
do most of your polygonal mesh generation. It includes marching cubes and a
number of other algorithms for iso-surface extraction -- Note that vtk is
in part authored by Bill Lorensen, the author of the Marching Cubes
algorithm. The code compiles on many Unix boxes as well as Win95/NT and
includes an OpenGL based viewer for both platforms.
I have used vtk for a number of projects in our surgery simulation work and
find it amazing that something this good is basically free. BTW, there is a
book by Prentice-Hall that you do need to fully understand how vtk works--
it is listed in the web site.
A final pointer is to mvox (http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~mvox/) -- this is an
interactive application to segment and mesh medical imagery. I have also
used it in conjunction with vtk for difficult segmentation problems. There
is a demo on the website-- it costs money, around $2500 US, but it works
well and is considerably cheaper than other similar packages that I know
of.
Good Luck,
--dwight
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Dwight Meglan, PhD | Developers of complete surgery simulation
Engineering Director | training systems and surgery simulation
HT Medical, Inc. | creation software tools
6001 Montrose Rd., Suite 902 |
Rockville, MD 20852-4874 | 301 984 3706 x238 301 984 2104 : FAX
dwight@ht.com | http://www.ht.com
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~martink/vtkData/WhatIsVTK.html
There you will find all the source code, example data, documentation, etc.
for a quite complete library of C++ code with tcl script bindings which wil
do most of your polygonal mesh generation. It includes marching cubes and a
number of other algorithms for iso-surface extraction -- Note that vtk is
in part authored by Bill Lorensen, the author of the Marching Cubes
algorithm. The code compiles on many Unix boxes as well as Win95/NT and
includes an OpenGL based viewer for both platforms.
I have used vtk for a number of projects in our surgery simulation work and
find it amazing that something this good is basically free. BTW, there is a
book by Prentice-Hall that you do need to fully understand how vtk works--
it is listed in the web site.
A final pointer is to mvox (http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~mvox/) -- this is an
interactive application to segment and mesh medical imagery. I have also
used it in conjunction with vtk for difficult segmentation problems. There
is a demo on the website-- it costs money, around $2500 US, but it works
well and is considerably cheaper than other similar packages that I know
of.
Good Luck,
--dwight
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dwight Meglan, PhD | Developers of complete surgery simulation
Engineering Director | training systems and surgery simulation
HT Medical, Inc. | creation software tools
6001 Montrose Rd., Suite 902 |
Rockville, MD 20852-4874 | 301 984 3706 x238 301 984 2104 : FAX
dwight@ht.com | http://www.ht.com