Staircase aware smoothing

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I am trying to see if slicer has a built in method for smoothing out the staircase effect on models.
for example, this skull model shows the effect on the back:

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there are certainly papers that outline algorithms to smooth the staircase effect, but implementation can be a rather daunting task. example: [PDF] Staircase-Aware Smoothing of Medical Surface Meshes | Semantic Scholar

i see there are posts here (Help with smoothing models) that state cubic voxels are required to avoid staircase artifacts. does that apply in this case where i am not cropping the volume? are voxels in slicer cubic by default?

i would rather avoid generalized smoothing to preserve the integrity of the model in sections without the stair step effect.

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Slicer has all the tools to deal with this. Do you still have the image where this model is generated from?

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yes, i have everything needed to generate this model

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OK, if you have the original volume then these instructions should work well.

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