# Paper of constructing STL file from 2d image slices

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/paper-of-constructing-stl-file-from-2d-image-slices/16165
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** segmentation
**Created:** [February 23, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/paper-of-constructing-stl-file-from-2d-image-slices/16165 "2021-02-23T19:07:15Z")
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### Author: ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/paper-of-constructing-stl-file-from-2d-image-slices/16165/2 "2021-02-23T19:19:45Z")

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See details on the algorithms [here](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/geometry-extraction/16113/2). Maybe we gave specific references to papers in other posts, but except flying edges, these are very well known classic methods.

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