What is surface rendering?
Surface rendering identifies points on the surface of a 3D object that is to be imaged and creates small facets or polygons that join up like points. This creates a single layer surface over the object that needs to be visualised then discards all other data points. Within the surface rendered model it is only that surface that we are particularly interested in that is kept which means that the images themselves are quite small, they can be saved and as it is a discrete three dimensional virtual object there is potential to interact with this object in a graphics environment for surgical planning, object manipulation and templating surface modelling is a number of significant advantages.
