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Deformable implicit surfaces, implemented with level set methods, have demonstrated a great potential in the computational sciences for applications such as modeling, simulation, and segmentation. They allow implicit handling of complex topologies deformed by operations where large changes can occur without destroying the level set representation. The use of level set techniques for the computation and segmentation of plane-like and high positive curvature features is nontrivial. We present a technique for representing and extracting fault surfaces from 3-D seismic attribute data such that 2-manifolds can be interactively computed and segmented. We present our approach as an interactive workflow that generates highly accurate fault surfaces.
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Kadlec, B.J., Dorn, G.A., Tufo, H.M. et al. Interactive 3-D computation of fault surfaces using level sets. Vis Geosci 13, 133–138 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10069-008-0016-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10069-008-0016-9