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- From: mavuduru@peca.cs.umn.edu (Rama Mavuduru)
- Subject: Re: Reconstructing 3D solid from planar cross sections
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- Keywords: reconstruction 3D solid autocad
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:20:25 GMT
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- In <martin.726422303@marsh> martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) writes:
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- >I have a need to reconstruct a full 3D solid from a series of
- >parallel planar cross-sections of the object. It needs to be
- >implemented as a C extension to AutoCad. (using ADS)
-
- >All the references I have been able to find on this topic deal
- >with reconstructing body parts from CAT-scans... the problem
- >is they are not useful for the sort of irregular bodies I'm
- >looking at, which may split apart and rejoin.
-
- See the following paper:
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- H.N. Christiansen & T.W. Sederberg, "Conversion of Complex Contour
- Line Definitions into Polygonal Element Meshes", Computer Graphics,
- Aug 78, pp. 187 - 192.
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- Rama
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