Marching Cubes
paulbourke.net/geometry/polygonise
This document describes an algorithm for creating a polygonal surface representation of an isosurface of a 3D scalar field. A common name for this type of problem is the so called “marching cubes” algorithm. It combines simplicity with high speed since it works almost entirely on lookup tables.
python.org/pypi/PyMCubes PyMCubes 0.0.6
PyMCubes is an implementation of the marching cubes algorithm to extract isosurfaces from volumetric data. The volumetric data can be given as a three-dimensional NumPy array or as a Python function f(x, y, z). The first option is much faster, but it requires more memory and becomes unfeasible for very large volumes.
PyMCubes also provides a function to export the results of the marching cubes as COLLADA (.dae) files. This requires the PyCollada library.
mutantbob/blender-marching-cubes