Patent on Marching Cubes?

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From: mark mccallum
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:18

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I am attempting to find out if the marching cubes alg. is patented.
I have a client that would like to use it in a commerical piece.

thanks for any help,
mark

[ Moderator's Note: Yes, there is a software patent on the technique used in
the original Marching Cubes paper. I am not sure who holds it. There are other
isosurface routines that have similar results or are improvements on MC,
but I don't have references handy. I will try with difficulty to restrain
myself from commenting on the effectiveness and worth of software patents
in general. - JRM ]

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