Dynamic Real-Time Meshing of Point Clouds

Spring 2011 Tasks

Work done Spring 2011

• Compiled and ran CUDA Marching Cubes example from SDK
• Modified the existing code to handle our own custom dataset
• Successful in dividing a dataset into 8 parts, running the meshing algorithm

on each part separately and connecting them together.

• Created an interface for the user to input data

Goals for end of Spring 2011

• Modify algorithm to compress the VBO to manageable size
• Add support for interpolation of extra input voxel data (colors, normals, texture coordinates) on mesh vertices
• Add support for normals input, interpolate normals on the voxel cube to obtain vertex normals,

and delete triangles facing away from the input normals

• Add support for texture coordinates and texture data
• Use a shader program to lookup texture array and blend between textures based on pre-computed weights