Metaballs to marching cubes: a quick history of implicit modeling algorithms
keenanisalive · x · 2026-10-10
The history continues: after Blinn, Nishimura, Wyvill, Witkin and others built richer blobby models and metaballs, plus the implicit visualization algorithms we now take for granted—Lorensen & Cline's marching cubes and Hart's sphere tracing.
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