PoD <pod### [at] merlinnetau> writes:

> Thomas Willhalm wrote:
> > 
> > The reconstruction of a surface from a point cloud is subject to current
> > research. That's why it is not too surprising that no free all purpose tool
> > exists for this task.
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
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> > http://thomas.willhalm.de/ (includes pgp key)
> 
> The closest thing is probably finding a 'convex hull'
> You could look at 
> http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/qhull/

Much more sophisticated methods exist. I'm no specialist in this field,
but I can provide one reference:

r-Regular Shape Reconstruction from Unorganized Points
Dominique Attali
13th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry 1997: Nice, France

Thomas

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http://thomas.willhalm.de/ (includes pgp key)

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