PoD <pod### [at] merlin net au> 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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>
> 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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