Volume


Introduction

The Volume plugin performs three actions:

  1. Computes a value grid from a set of atoms.
  2. Generates triangles of an iso-surface (contour) based on a grid
  3. Maps nearest atoms from a set to points on iso-surface

This plugin does not have a GUI.

The following commands compute grid based on currently selected atoms, create triangles, and map atoms:

These commands work on selected, existing grids and require a contour level to be specified as parameter:

The Triangulation method

The creation of triangles from a grid is based on algorithm by Jules Bloomenthal:
Bloomenthal, Jules, An Implicit Surface Polygonizer, Graphics Gems IV, p. 324-349, (Paul Heckbert ed.), Academic Press (Morgan Kaufmann) 1994.


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