A ‘hidden line’ algorithm for 3D-reconstruction from serial sections — An extension of the NEUREC program package for a microcomputer

✍ Scribed by Heribert Gras

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Weight: 838 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-468X
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-468x(84)90052-7

✦ Synopsis

An algorithm is described to generate pictures in arbitrary perspective from serially sectioned biological material. Only those parts of the object which lie on a direct line of sight to the observer are included into the computed paper-plot, while hidden lines are omitted. The program was written for an inexpensive Apple II + microcomputer as an extension of an earlier program library (NEUREC) for three-dimensional reconstruction. Application examples of neuronal and cardiac tissues are presented.

Serial sections Three-dimensional reconstruction Hidden line removal Microcomputer Apple If