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[Mariette Yvinec <>]

Plain alpha_shapes is not a very good reconstruction method.
The "optimal" alpha-value is the smallest alpha value
that will give a single connected components including all data points.
It might not be the best one to see the Bunny feature appear.

You might try a few others alpha values,
just to be convinced things are working as they should.

Le 25/11/13 20:28, Claudia Werner a écrit :

Dear all,
I am working on Alpha_Shapes for triangulating a point cloud. As a first example I tried the example "Alpha_shapes_3/ex_alpha_shapes_3.cpp"
(http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Alpha_shapes_3/Alpha_shapes_3_2ex_alpha_shapes_3_8cpp-example.html) and wrote the result to an off-File as descirbed here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15905833/saving-cgal-alpha-shape-surface-mesh.
Displaying the result with MeshLab (using the off-file), I was wondering about the result (see attached picture).
Has anybody an idea why I don't get a better result? As in the example I used the optimal alpha.
I also attached the cpp-file.

Best Regards and thanks for your help,
Claudia

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Mariette Yvinec
Geometrica project team
INRIA  Sophia-Antipolis