Abstract
Computer Tomography (CT) has been used for inspection purposes in the industry today. It is also used for measuring shapes of mechanical parts. In order to generate shape information from CT data, it is general to use Marching Cubes (MC) method which reconstructs triangular mesh models (MC mesh). Nowadays, because of the high resolution of CT devices, MC meshes become so dense and large to process on ordinary PCs. We propose a method to convert such MC meshes into the form of triangular strips so that they can be compressed and efficiently displayed. The method is based on characteristics particular to the MC meshes, that is, the vertices of the MC meshes are located on the three dimensional grids. In this paper, we describe this method to generate strips from MC meshes and also show experimental results using a realistic example to prove the effectivity of the method.
