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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
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Subject: Re: iso-surfaces in SciVi
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Date: 29 Sep 89 21:46:58 GMT
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In article <19889@mimsy.UUCP> rmr@mimsy.umd.edu (Randy M. Rohrer) writes:
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>what is an iso-surface?
In a multi-dimensional (2,3,+) sampling of data points, an iso-surface
is a surface passes through data of the same value.
This implies a certain degree of smoothness in the data samples.
For example, the temperature surface of 200-degrees surrounding a flame.