VripPack

VripPack is a package for volumetrically merging a set of range images. Developed as part of the project to build a 3D fax machine, it is based on a new approach to surface reconstruction from range images. VripPack is being made available for research and commercial use, free of charge, as described at the bottom of this web page. A closely related software package is Volfill, a diffusion-based hole filler for large polygon meshes.

VripPack is a set of source code, scripts, and binaries for creating surface reconstructions from range images. This package has the following features:

• Merges range images into a compressed volumetric grid
• Extracts a surface from the compressed volumetric grid
• Can fill holes in the reconstruction by carving out empty space
• Removes small triangles from the reconstruction
• Performs a simple 4-level decimation for interactive rendering

Note that VripPack is designed for merging but not aligning range images. Another software package, scanalyze, is distributed which does have an alignment feature.

Related publications:

Brian Curless and Marc Levoy , A Volumetric Method for Building Complex Models from Range Images, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH96