Planetary marching cubes: A marching cubes algorithm for spherical space

Zackary P.T. Sin; Peter H.F. Ng

doi:10.1145/3301506.3301522

Planetary marching cubes: A marching cubes algorithm for spherical space

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Abstract

There is a growing interest in digital games with user-generated content. Games with user-generated content usually involve terrain editing and marching cubes is a popular algorithm that permits a dynamic terrain. On the other hand, there is also growing interest in games with a planetary theme. Hence, a question is asked on whether can marching cubes be used to generate a planetary terrain. This study investigates how to adopt the marching cubes algorithm in a spherical space, specifically, for generating a planetary terrain. The result is the proposed planetary marching cubes, which compared to previous methods, could generate more complex terrain features while retaining smooth surfaces.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICVIP 2018 - Proceedings of 2018 the 2nd International Conference on Video and Image Processing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	89-94
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450366137
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3301506.3301522
Publication status	Published - 29 Dec 2018
Event	2nd International Conference on Video and Image Processing, ICVIP 2018 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 29 Dec 2018 → 31 Dec 2018

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Conference	2nd International Conference on Video and Image Processing, ICVIP 2018
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	29/12/18 → 31/12/18

Keywords

3D Terrain Model
Game Engineering
Marching Cubes
Mesh Generation
User-generated Content

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Planetary marching cubes: A marching cubes algorithm for spherical space. / Sin, Zackary P.T.; Ng, Peter H.F.
ICVIP 2018 - Proceedings of 2018 the 2nd International Conference on Video and Image Processing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 89-94 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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