/// A specialised vertex format which encodes the data from the Marching Cubes algorithm in a very
/// compact way. You will probably want to use the decodeVertex() function to turn it into a regular
/// Vertex for rendering, but advanced users can also decode it on the GPU (see PolyVox examples).
template<typename _DataType>
struct  MarchingCubesVertex
{      
   typedef _DataType DataType;

   /// Each component of the position is stored using 8.8 fixed-point encoding.
   Vector3DUint16 encodedPosition;

   /// The normal is encoded as a 16-bit unsigned integer using the 'oct16'
   /// encoding described here: http://jcgt.org/published/0003/02/01/
   uint16_t encodedNormal;

   /// The interpolated voxel data from the neighbouring voxels which generated this
   /// vertex (every vertex is placed between two voxels by the MArching Cubes algorithm)
   DataType data;
};