isosurface
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- Subclass of
- level set
- Follows
- contour line
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- Applications
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- Marching cubes
- Asymptotic decider
- Marching tetrahedra
- Surface nets
- Dual contouring
- Manifold dual contouring
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An isosurface is a three-dimensional analog of an isoline. It is a surface that represents points of a constant value (e.g. pressure, temperature, velocity, density) within a volume of space; in other words, it is a level set of a continuous function whose domain is 3-space.
The term isoline is also sometimes used for domains of more than 3 dimensions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “isosurface” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.