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mhackarbie (593426)

mhackarbie
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I am a postdoc in biochemistry. Currently I spend most of my time preparing lectures and teaching biochemistry.

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Marching Cubes works

[ #19109 ]
Sunday December 15 2002, @07:35PM
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I implemented the marching cubes algorithm, and after correcting a dozen errors in my 256 cases, and writing some hole-patching code, it works beautifully! I can mesh the entire ribosome quickly and easily. For example, I meshed the RNA in 1kpj.pdb at 4 A resolution in 8 seconds! I don't know if that's fast for other implementations, but it's good enough for me.