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VripPack:
Volumetric Range Image Processing Package
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VripPack is a package for volumetrically merging a set of range
images.
Developed as part
of our project to build a 3D fax machine,
it is based on a new approach to surface reconstruction from
range images (see
Brian Curless and Marc Levoy , A
Volumetric Method for Building Complex Models from Range
Images, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH96).
Table of Contents
VripPack is a set of scripts and binaries for creating surface
reconstructions from range images. This package has the following
features:
- Merges range images into a compressed volumetric grid
- Extracts a surface from the compressed volumetric grid
- Can fill holes in the reconstruction by carving out empty space
- Removes small triangles from the reconstruction
- Performs a simple 4-level decimation for interactive rendering
- Includes a polygon viewer (plyview) that is lightweight and uses the
4-level decimation
At the moment, the binaries are only compiled for SGI platforms.
However, the volumetric range merging code is written in a machine
independent manner and will be available soon. The viewer, plyview,
is based on OpenGL and is also portable across platforms.
The current release of VripPack is version 0.1beta5, which is a beta
release. This release and some additional information are available by
anonymous ftp to graphics.stanford.edu in the directory pub/vrippack
.
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VripPack (2.6 MB compressed, 7.5 MB uncompressed)
- Compressed
tar file containing scripts and binaries. Save it as
vrippack-0.1b5.tar.gz and type "
gunzip -c vrippack-0.1b5.tar.gz
| tar xf -" to unpack the package.
If you decide to use the software then please add yourself to our
mailing list so we can tell you about bug fixes and new versions of
the software. (This mailing list is very low volume.) Just send a
message to:
vrip@graphics.stanford.edu
Distribution notice
Copyright © 1996 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior
University. All rights reserved.
Except for commercial resale, lease, license or other commercial
transactions, permission is hereby given to use, copy, and/or modify
this software, provided that the above copyright notice and this
permission notice appear in all copies of this software. No part of
this software or any derivatives thereof may be used in the production
of computer models for resale or for use in a commercial product.
This software is provided "as is" and without warranty of any
kind, express, implied or otherwise, including without limitation, any
warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose.
The documentation is availble in two forms:
Last update: 21 October 1996
vrip@graphics.stanford.edu