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- From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
- Subject: Re: Reconstructing 3D solid from planar cross sections
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.183706.6074@cis.uab.edu>
- Keywords: reconstruction 3D solid autocad
- Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- References: <martin.726422303@marsh>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:37:06 GMT
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- In article <martin.726422303@marsh> martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) writes:
- >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)
- >
- >The 3D solid is a pretty free-form shape (it is in fact an
- >underground ore body), and the slices are reasonably far apart.
- >I envisage some sort of wireframe "skin" placed over the
- >sections, defining the final 3D solid.
-
- See the July issue of TOG. If, after reading that, you are interested
- in research-quality code, contact me via e-mail. Sorry, we don't do
- AutoCad, you'll have to do that yourself.
-
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