Well, I suppose so! We know which corners are "inside" and which are
"outside", so we should be able to make that assessment, and beyond that
it's just a combination of simple shapes. Good thinking, Matt.
I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway....
Bob
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Matthew Zwier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have added the "AREA" keyword to the isosurface command. No idea how
> you
> > would calculate the volume...
>
> I might be speaking out of ignorance here...but the JVXL code uses a
> marching cubes algorithm to characterize the surface...could the code
> be adapted to act as an integrator? "The isosurface contains N
> complete cubes of side length L" or something? It'd necessarily be
> approximate (in very much the same sense that a Riemann sum
> approximation of an integral is), but it'd be a very quick and easy
> first-order approximation if it were possible.
>
> Matt Z.
>
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