After the long article about the derivation of the Dualgrid, the hard part of Dual Marching Cubes is done. Now, only the triangulation is left, which is now covered in a rather short article.
With that, some nice volume meshes can be created. But for terrain, a Level of Detail mechanism is still needed, this is what will come up next.
The longest article so far is online, it’s how to derive the Dualgrid from the Octree. This is the last tedious part, until the real Dual Marching Cubes triangles appear!
The complete Dualgrid of the quarter sphere scene
After the introduction, the first article about the needed steps in Dual Marching Cubes is online, generating the Octree!
And beside that, a little donation button sneaked in at the front page as a possibility to directly support this page and this project.
I think, it’s also interesting on this site to post some news arround the ongoing development of the Volume Component of OGRE which is the implementation of all (currently described and upcoming) articles on this site.
Since today, realtime editing of the terrain is possible!
This is the changelog since the last push to OGRE:
Of course, everything behind it will become some dedicated articles in the future.
After having nicely textured Marching Cubes geometry, it’s time to start with something better, Dual Marching Cubes. But at some point, Marching Cubes will play a role again, hence the name Dual Marching Cubes.
A small introduction to this algorithm is now online.
