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[Laurent Saboret <>]

No, so far CGAL reconstructs only closed surfaces from point sets.

Regards,
Laurent Saboret


Engin Kurutepe wrote:
> 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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