# marchingCubes - Marching Cubes Isosurfaces

## Description

This sample extracts a geometric isosurface from a volume dataset using the marching cubes algorithm. It uses the scan (prefix sum) function from the Thrust library to perform stream compaction.

## Key Concepts

OpenGL Graphics Interop, Vertex Buffers, 3D Graphics, Physically Based Simulation

## Supported SM Architectures

[SM 5.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 5.2 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 5.3 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 6.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 6.1 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 7.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 7.2 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 7.5 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.6 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.7 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.9 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 9.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)

## Supported OSes

Linux, Windows

## Supported CPU Architecture

x86_64, armv7l

## CUDA APIs involved

### [CUDA Runtime API](http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-runtime-api/index.html)
cudaGLUnmapBufferObject, cudaGraphicsUnmapResources, cudaCreateChannelDesc, cudaMemcpy, cudaFree, cudaGLMapBufferObject, cudaGraphicsResourceGetMappedPointer, cudaGraphicsMapResources, cudaDestroyTextureObject, cudaGLUnregisterBufferObject, cudaCreateTextureObject, cudaGLRegisterBufferObject, cudaGraphicsUnregisterResource, cudaMalloc, cudaGraphicsGLRegisterBuffer

## Dependencies needed to build/run
[X11](../../../README.md#x11), [GL](../../../README.md#gl)

## Prerequisites

Download and install the [CUDA Toolkit 12.5](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads) for your corresponding platform.
Make sure the dependencies mentioned in [Dependencies]() section above are installed.

## References (for more details)