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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 02/16/2012 03:41 AM, ckehoe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a question about surface reconstruction with CGAL. I downloaded and
> ran the reconstruction demo, but I'm not sure how to modify it for my
> situation. There are two differences I need to deal with:
>
> 1. I don't have normals for my points. My surface is pretty smooth, so
> normal estimation should work, but I couldn't find the documentation that
> actually described how to do this. Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
See this package:
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/cgal_manual/Point_set_processing_3/Chapter_main.html

Sebastien.

> 2. I have colors that need to be assigned to each point, so I need to track
> the points in some way as they go through the algorithm. I don't entirely
> understand the data structures CGAL uses, since I don't have a strong
> computer graphics background. How can I deal with this situation?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
>
> - Charlie
>
>
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