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A novel algorithm to voxelize 3D mesh models with gray levels is presented in this paper. The key innovation of our method is to decide the gray level of a voxel according to the total area of all surfaces contained by it. During the preprocessing stage, a set of voxels in the extended bounding box of each triangle is established. Then we travel each triangle and compute the areas between it and its set of voxels one by one. Finally, each voxel is arranged a discrete gray level from 0 to 255. Experiments show that our algorithm gets a comparatively perfect result compared with the prevenient ones and approaches the original models in a more accurate way.
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Liu, W., He, Yj. & Zhou, Xh. Voxelizating 3D mesh models with gray levels. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 14, 513–517 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-009-0513-5
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