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Re: Generate 3D Surface out of Points in Space [message #39819 is a reply to message #39817]

Tue, 22 June 2004 16:19

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Tukee10 writes:

> Hi everybody. I have 50 sliced images, that represent a splitting blood
> vessel. I went through the slices and extracted the contours of the blood
> vessel with the function CONTOURS. Now I have many points that lie on the
> surface of the vessel. I would like to reconstruct the 3d surface of the
> vessel out of these points. Is there any function or procedure that is
> able to do that?

You can see a general approach to this problem in this
article:

http://www.dfanning.com/graphics_tips/mesh.html

As someone else discovered earlier this week, this method
works well if you data is "well behaved". You are completely
on your own if your data is not so well behaved. That is
to say, blood vessels make me nervous. :-(

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: Generate 3D Surface out of Points in Space By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 23 June 2004 10:21
		Re: Generate 3D Surface out of Points in Space By: Tukee10 on Tue, 22 June 2004 16:30
		Re: Generate 3D Surface out of Points in Space By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 June 2004 16:19
		Re: Generate 3D Surface out of Points in Space By: Beat.Schmutz on Thu, 24 June 2004 00:57
		Re: Generate 3D Surface out of Points in Space By: siliconcube on Thu, 24 June 2004 09:33

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