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[Bo Zhou <>]

Indika Tantrigoda wrote:
> Hello,
> I am in the middle of a research where I try to reconstruct a 3D model 
> based on photographs.
> So far I am able to obtain a sparse point could containing the points 
> of the object. I have developed a point cloud
> viewer in XNA to view this point cloud data.
> What I would like to do is to generate a dense 3D model based on this 
> point could. Would this be possible with CGAL, if so
> any advice would be very much appreciated.
> I recently found out about CGAL and my knowledge in using CGAL is very 
> minimal (non actually).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> indika
Hi,

It seems that you want to reconstruct mesh from point cloud, you could 
have a look at

*Chapter 34 3D Alpha Shapes*

or
to find some useful implementation here

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/Code/

Thanks.

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