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- From: wes@ux6.lbl.gov (Wes Bethel)
- Subject: Re: Handling of "missing" or "special values"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.132211.23208@netnews.whoi.edu>
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- Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA
- References: <1992Dec30.150955.18683@netnews.whoi.edu+ <1ht21uINN1ui@overload.lbl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 13:22:11 GMT
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- In article <1ht21uINN1ui@overload.lbl.gov> wes@ux6.lbl.gov (Wes Bethel) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec30.150955.18683@netnews.whoi.edu+ rsignell@crusty.er.usgs.gov (Richard P. Signell) writes:
-
- >+Is there a way to tell isosurface to ignore missing or special
- >+values in a 3D grid? Setting missing values to zero or some
- >+other value does *not* have the desired affect.
-
- >The power of the "marching cubes" (tm) (blech) algorithm is that it
- >breaks a big problem into a bunch of little problems. The little
- >problem is to find where the surface of interest intersect the (possibly
- >twisted) hexahedron that you're looking at.
- >
- >The absolute best you can do, using marching cubes that is, is to use
- >your judgement to provide data values where there are none. I guess
- >you've tried some of the crusty interpolation modules which are
- >available, only to have land crop up in the middle of the ocean ;-).
-
- In fact, this is how I currently deal with the situation: I provide
- data values where there are none, making the data value equal to the
- neighboring *good* point. This way isosurface can't put a surface
- between the *special value* point and the *good* point.
-
- I was hoping for something better, but thanks to the explanation about
- how isosurface works, I now understand why it's a problem.
-
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