VripPack: Volumetric Range Image Processing Package

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 (see Brian Curless and Marc Levoy , A Volumetric Method for Building Complex Models from Range Images, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH96). 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, our diffusion-based hole filler for large polygon meshes.

Table of Contents

• VripPack Overview
• VripPack Software Distribution
• VripPack Documentation

VripPack Overview

• 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. We also distribute the scanalyze package which does have an alignment feature. 

VripPack Software Distribution

VripPack for linux (and Cygwin) 

Compressed tar file containing source code, scripts, and linux binaries. The binaries are linked against Tcl/Tk version 8.4 shared libaries under Linux. It is best if these libraries are already installed on your system, but copies for run-time use are provided in this distribution. Alternatively, you may re-compile against another version of Tcl/Tk.

VripPack for SGI 

Compressed tar file containing source code, scripts, and irix binaries for vrippack version 0.2. The irix code base is not actively maintained.

We welcome questions, suggestions, comments, and bug reports from users of vrippack. However, we do not guarantee timely responses to them. In particular, the developers have long since graduated and left Stanford. Email should be sent to:

vrip-question at graphics dot stanford dot edu

VripPack Documentation

• Roadmap to the code base
• HTML version of the VripPack User's Guide
• PDF version of the VripPack User's Guide

Distribution notice

During the period 1995-2007, this software was covered by the Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory's custom-written General Software License. This license is royalty-free, nonexclusive, and nontransferable. Click here to view its terms and conditions. In modification of these terms and conditions, users were permitted to distribute or sell derivatives of this software without accounting to Stanford or the developers, and without payment of royalties to Stanford or the developers. However, title and copyright to the software and documentation remained with Stanford, and users were required to acknowledge the contribution of Stanford in any derivatives, as detailed in the license.

For downloads beginning on August 23, 2007, this software is covered by a new General Software License, which is based on the BSD license.