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+This directory contains meta-files related to the Lewiner marching cubes
+algorithm. These are not used by the algorithm, but can be convenient
+for development/maintenance:
+    
+* MarchingCubes.cpp - the original algorithm, this is ported to Cython
+* LookupTable.h - the original LUTs, these are ported to Python
+* createluts.py - scrip to generate Python luts from the .h file
+* visual_test.py - script to compare visual results of marchingcubes algorithms