Implicit Surface Model Generator

Generates non-manifold meshes for the triply periodic minimal surfaces Gyroid and Fisher-Koch S. Developed to enable 3D printing of scaffolds for bone tissue reconstruction. The project was completed at Colorado State University under the advisement of Professors David Prawel and Clayton Shonkwiler for partial fulfillment of an undergraduate research course.

Python Version

Python version 3.9 is required.

Citation

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@software{Gunn_Implicit_Surface_Model_2021,
  author = {Gunn, Erin},
  month = {12},
  title = {{Implicit Surface Model Generator}},
  version = {1.0.0},
  year = {2021}
}

Description

The basic, single surface algorithm generates a volume in R3 and uses Marching Cubes to generate the mesh. To offset the surfaces, I used the method described by Geier and merged them.

References

Geier, M., & Alihussein, H. (2021). Computation of implicit representation of volumetric shells with predefined thickness. Algorithms, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/a14040125