Volume Grid Isosurface mesh issue

[zvsmith]

Hi,

I've run into an issue with the isosurface generation for volume grid scalar quantities. The problem appears to be that the change made to fix the frame transformation for #253 wasn't propagated into the grid dimensions passed to the MarchingCube library, resulting in the grid cells being interpreted in the wrong order.

The following shows a volume grid of the Stanford Bunny and its isosurface visualization with the 2.2.1 release:

By swizzling the grid dimensions passed into MarchingCube we get the following (correct) result instead:

The patch for the above fix is:

diff --git a/src/volume_grid_scalar_quantity.cpp b/src/volume_grid_scalar_quantity.cpp                                 
index cde441a..603841f 100644                                                                                          
--- a/src/volume_grid_scalar_quantity.cpp                                                                              
+++ b/src/volume_grid_scalar_quantity.cpp                                                                              
@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ void VolumeGridNodeScalarQuantity::createIsosurfaceProgram() {                                     
                                                                                                                       
   // Extract the isosurface from the level set of the scalar field                                                    
   MC::mcMesh isosurfaceMesh;                                                                                          
-  MC::marching_cube(&values.data.front(), isosurfaceLevel.get(), parent.getGridNodeDim().x, parent.getGridNodeDim().y,
-                    parent.getGridNodeDim().z, isosurfaceMesh);                                                       
+  MC::marching_cube(&values.data.front(), isosurfaceLevel.get(), parent.getGridNodeDim().z, parent.getGridNodeDim().y,
+                    parent.getGridNodeDim().x, isosurfaceMesh);                                                       
                                                                                                                       
   // Transform the result to be aligned with our volume's spatial layout                                              
   glm::vec3 scale = parent.gridSpacing();                                                                             
@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ SurfaceMesh* VolumeGridNodeScalarQuantity::registerIsosurfaceAsMesh(std::string                    
                                                                                                                       
   // extract the mesh                                                                                                 
   MC::mcMesh isosurfaceMesh;                                                                                          
-  MC::marching_cube(&values.data.front(), isosurfaceLevel.get(), parent.getGridNodeDim().x, parent.getGridNodeDim().y,
-                    parent.getGridNodeDim().z, isosurfaceMesh);                                                       
+  MC::marching_cube(&values.data.front(), isosurfaceLevel.get(), parent.getGridNodeDim().z, parent.getGridNodeDim().y,
+                    parent.getGridNodeDim().x, isosurfaceMesh);                                                       
   glm::vec3 scale = parent.gridSpacing();                                                                             
   for (auto& p : isosurfaceMesh.vertices) {                                                                           
     // swizzle to account for change of coordinate/buffer ordering in the MC lib                                      

I'm not sure how you prefer to manage the repo, but if you'd like me to open a PR for the fix I'm happy to. Thanks!

[baptiste-genest]

Hi, thanks for the fix! Indeed it would be nice to have it merged!