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From: johng@OCE.ORST.EDU (John A. Gregor)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Help: Creating 3-D mesh from arbitrary points.
Keywords: mesh, points, tesselation, triangulation
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Date: 14 Feb 91 19:06:39 GMT
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We have a relatively large (several thousand) set of ocean samples in
3-D that we want to visualize.  Unfortunately, all the tools we have
demand that the data be represented as gridded data or as a connected
mesh (either tetrahedrons xor hexahedrons).  Any pointers to routines
or literature to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

Some more notes about the data:  It's scattered in XY but linear in Z.
Also, the number of and distance between Z samples varies among the XY
locations.

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-John
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John Gregor			johng@oce.orst.edu
Oregon State University		(503) 737-3022
College of Oceanography
Corvallis, OR