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From: foo@erfordia.rice.edu (Mark Hall)
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Subject: Re: how to view f(x,y,z) = constant surfaces ?
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Date: 15 Mar 91 15:46:57 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.234739.15281@athena.mit.edu> chasman@athena.mit.edu (David Chasman) writes:
)What I am looking
)for is some code to take the function zz = f(x,y,z) and render the 3-D surface
)which corresponds to this.  

  see 

@Article{WMW:soft,
  author =      "Geoff Wyvill and Craig McPheeters and Brian Wyvill",
  title =       "Data Structure for {\it Soft} Objects",
  journal =     viscomp,
  year =        1986,
  volume =      2,
  number =      4,
  month =       "August",
  pages =       "227--234"
}

@Article{Upson:Amorphous,
  author = "Craig Upson",
  title = "The Visual Simulation of Amorphous Phenomena",
  journal = viscomp,
  volume = 2,
  number = 5,
  month =   "September",
  year =   1986,
  pages = "321--326"
}


@Article{LC:MCubes,
  author =      "W. Lorenson and H. Cline",
  title =       "Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Alg$
  journal =     siggraph,
  year =        1987,
  month =       "August",
  volume =      21,
  number =      4,
  pages =       "163--169"
}

@Article{Bloom:ImpSurf,
  author =      "Jules Bloomenthal",
  title =       "Polygonalization of Implicit Surfaces",
  journal =     cagd,
  year =        1988,
  volume =      5,
  pages =       "341--355"
}

  Also, there is a very brief summary in the book "Graphics Gems", 
 the article is "Defining Surfaces from Sampled Data". 

  - mark