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[Bernd Gaertner <>]

> > > > I'm afraid that's the best you can do if you don't know anything about
> > > > your data, except the fact that they are almost coplanar.

You could try to find out the plane that the points are almost in by 
using principal component analysis, see 
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.3/doc_html/cgal_manual/Principal_component_analysis_ref/Function_linear_least_squares_fitting_3.html#Cross_link_anchor_1307. 

Maybe this helps.

Best,
Bernd.