# Meaning of tetEdgeCrnrs and tetTri in marching\_tetrahedra.jl of Meshing.jl

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The following is part of the source code of marching\_tetrahedra.jl in the Meshing.jl module.

The tetEdgeCrnrs and tetTri fields of the `VoxelIndices` immutable don’t really make sense to me, so I would appreciate the help. Thank you.

```julia
"""
Voxel corner and edge indexing conventions

        Z
        |

        5------5------6 Extra edges not drawn
       /| /| -----------
      8 | 6 | - face diagonals
     / 9 / 10 - 13: 1 to 3
    8------7------7 | - 14: 1 to 8
    | | | | - 15: 1 to 6
    | 1------1--|---2 -- Y - 16: 5 to 7
    12 / 11 / - 17: 2 to 7
    | 4 | 2 - 18: 4 to 7
    |/ |/ - body diagonal
    4------3------3 - 19: 1 to 7

  /
 X
"""
immutable VoxelIndices{T <: Integer}
    voxCrnrPos::NTuple{8,NTuple{3,T}}
    voxEdgeCrnrs::NTuple{19, NTuple{2,T}}
    voxEdgeDir::NTuple{19,T}
    voxEdgeIx::NTuple{8,NTuple{8,T}}
    subTets::NTuple{6,NTuple{4,T}}
    tetEdgeCrnrs::NTuple{6,NTuple{2,T}}
    tetTri::NTuple{16,NTuple{6,T}}

    function VoxelIndices()
        voxCrnrPos = ((0, 0, 0),
                      (0, 1, 0),
                      (1, 1, 0),
                      (1, 0, 0),
                      (0, 0, 1),
                      (0, 1, 1),
                      (1, 1, 1),
                      (1, 0, 1))
        # the voxel IDs at either end of the tetrahedra edges, by edge ID
        voxEdgeCrnrs = ((1, 2),
                        (2, 3),
                        (4, 3),
                        (1, 4),
                        (5, 6),
                        (6, 7),
                        (8, 7),
                        (5, 8),
                        (1, 5),
                        (2, 6),
                        (3, 7),
                        (4, 8),
                        (1, 3),
                        (1, 8),
                        (1, 6),
                        (5, 7),
                        (2, 7),
                        (4, 7),
                        (1, 7))

        # direction codes:
        # 0 => +x, 1 => +y, 2 => +z,
        # 3 => +xy, 4 => +xz, 5 => +yz, 6 => +xyz
        voxEdgeDir = (1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,2,2,2,2,3,4,5,3,4,5,6)

        # For a pair of corner IDs, the edge ID joining them
        # 0 denotes a pair with no edge
        voxEdgeIx = ((0,1,13,4,9,15,19,14),
                     (1,0,2,0,0,10,17,0),
                     (13,2,0,3,0,0,11,0),
                     (4,0,3,0,0,0,18,12),
                     (9,0,0,0,0,5,16,8),
                     (15,10,0,0,5,0,6,0),
                     (19,17,11,18,16,6,0,7),
                     (14,0,0,12,8,0,7,0))

        # voxel corners that comprise each of the six tetrahedra
        subTets = ((1,3,2,7),
                      (1,8,4,7),
                      (1,4,3,7),
                      (1,2,6,7),
                      (1,5,8,7),
                      (1,6,5,7))
        # tetrahedron corners for each edge (indices 1-4)
        tetEdgeCrnrs = ((1,2),
                        (2,3),
                        (1,3),
                        (1,4),
                        (2,4),
                        (3,4))

        # triangle cases for a given tetrahedron edge code
        tetTri = ((0,0,0,0,0,0),
                    (1,3,4,0,0,0),
                    (1,5,2,0,0,0),
                    (3,5,2,3,4,5),
                    (2,6,3,0,0,0),
                    (1,6,4,1,2,6),
                    (1,5,6,1,6,3),
                    (4,5,6,0,0,0),
                    (4,6,5,0,0,0),
                    (1,6,5,1,3,6),
                    (1,4,6,1,6,2),
                    (2,3,6,0,0,0),
                    (3,2,5,3,5,4),
                    (1,2,5,0,0,0),
                    (1,4,3,0,0,0),
                    (0,0,0,0,0,0))

        new(voxCrnrPos,
            voxEdgeCrnrs,
            voxEdgeDir,
            voxEdgeIx,
            subTets,
            tetEdgeCrnrs,
            tetTri)
    end
end

```