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[Engin Kurutepe <>]

Hello cgal experts,

I am using the surface mesh reconstruction for point sets methods and example 
code from 
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/last/doc_html/cgal_manual/Surface_reconstruction_points_3/Chapter_main.html

My goal is to convert a depth-map image to a smoothed surface mesh.

I believe my problem is a bit different than the examples provided in the 
manual. I have data only from a few viewpoints which are sparsely spread over 
an arc of about 30 degrees. Although the datapoints from different 
perspectives match quite well to each other, I don't have any data from the 
back of the scene for instance. 

So far the CGAL functions gave me closed surface meshes, where the back of 
the scene was simply reconstructed as a partial sphere.

Is there a way to force the Poisson_reconstruction_function() or 
make_surface_mesh() to generate surface sheets instead of closed objects? 

Best regards,
Engin Kurutepe.


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