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Author:  yogyog [ Sat Oct 26, 2013 7:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Trying to convert from voxels to polygons

Hi there people.

I'm looking for something that will convert from voxel data to polygon data. I'm a CGI artest rather than a coder, I use Blender, and i'm looking for something that will take a series of png images, slices of a scan of a mouses legsbone if you must know, and convert it into a polygon mesh - say a .3ds .obj file. It looks like your software WILL do this, but ... well ... I don't really know how to compile it and whether it will be able to do this.

Thanks for your help!

Author:  David Williams [ Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Trying to convert from voxels to polygons

PolyVox can indeed convert voxels to a polygon mesh (that is its main purpose) but it is not an all-in-one solution. That is, PolyVox is not an application which you can just run, but is instead a library which a programmer could use to create the application you want.

If you have access to a C++/graphics programmer then he/she could write a program to:

  • Read the images into a PolyVox volume.
  • Run a PolyVox surface extractor.
  • Convert the resulting mesh to the required format.

If you don't have acess to a programmer then you probably can't use PolyVox. There are plenty of other pieces of voxel software out there you could start here but I don't know whether any of them do exactly what you want.

Author:  yogyog [ Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Trying to convert from voxels to polygons

Thankyou - I will work my way through these softwares till I find what I want.

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