marchingCubes - Marching Cubes Isosurfaces

Description

This sample extracts a geometric isosurface from a volume dataset using the marching cubes algorithm. It uses the scan (prefix sum) function from the Thrust library to perform stream compaction.

Key Concepts

OpenGL Graphics Interop, Vertex Buffers, 3D Graphics, Physically Based Simulation

Supported SM Architectures

SM 5.0 SM 5.2 SM 5.3 SM 6.0 SM 6.1 SM 7.0 SM 7.2 SM 7.5 SM 8.0 SM 8.6 SM 8.7 SM 8.9 SM 9.0

Supported OSes

Linux, Windows

Supported CPU Architecture

x86_64, armv7l

CUDA APIs involved

CUDA Runtime API

cudaGLUnmapBufferObject, cudaGraphicsUnmapResources, cudaCreateChannelDesc, cudaMemcpy, cudaFree, cudaGLMapBufferObject, cudaGraphicsResourceGetMappedPointer, cudaGraphicsMapResources, cudaDestroyTextureObject, cudaGLUnregisterBufferObject, cudaCreateTextureObject, cudaGLRegisterBufferObject, cudaGraphicsUnregisterResource, cudaMalloc, cudaGraphicsGLRegisterBuffer

Dependencies needed to build/run

X11, OpenGL, Freeglut, GLEW

Prerequisites

Download and install the CUDA Toolkit for your corresponding platform. Make sure the dependencies mentioned in Dependencies section above are installed.

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