A novel region-growing based iso-surface extraction algorithm

In this paper, we propose a new region-growing based iso-surface extraction algorithm that can generate high-quality curvature-adaptive semi-regular meshes, preserve sharp features and will extract all the disjoint components of the iso-surface. More importantly, in this paper, we propose a novel normal consistency constraint that ensures the intersection of the Delaunay sphere of the new triangle and the iso-surface is a topological disk, an important property that makes the new algorithm very robust when dealing with large scale of volumetric datasets of complex topology and geometry.