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[Pierre Alliez <>]

hi Andrew,

I guess you are talking about mesh reconstruction from point sets?

we are working on it - but nothing before the next release.

in the meantime - if you have point sets with oriented normals I recommend
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/Code/PoissonRecon/

best,

Pierre

Andrew Corcoran a écrit :
> Hi there,
>
> I''m currently using the 3D alpha shape triangulation package in CGAL 
> to do mesh generation for point clouds. However alpha shapes don't 
> seem to deal with concave surfaces or large abrupt concave angle 
> changes in a visually pleasing manner.
>
> I've come across several commercial packages that seem to do this but 
> nothing thats freely available. I was wondering if there are any plans 
> to implement other meshing algorithims for point clouds rather than 
> just Delaunay and Alpha in CGAL or if anyone knows of another 
> free/open source package that has implemented slightly more robust 
> point cloud meshing.
>
> Thanks
> Andrew

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