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I have always seen the two ideas together so I am not sure what makes them different...

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The isosurface of a scalar field is a surface. Marching cubes is an algorithm to find the isosurface of a given scalar field. – Rahul Narain Apr 28 '12 at 16:26
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Marching cubes is an algorithm to find a polygonal approximation of the isosurface of a given scalar field using samples on a regular grid. – lhf Apr 28 '12 at 18:08

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