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Hi all,<br>
<br>
For a very long time the class vtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter has
been executing two different processes into the same class (as
described in the Hoppe et al's paper):<br>
<ol>
<li>Estimate normal given a point set</li>
<li>Reconstruct an implicit function from this point set with the
associated normals.</li>
</ol>
However, there are many new surface reconstruction methods out there
that out perform this method, but the normal estimation technique
remains as one of the most effective technique.<br>
<br>
Most of the user/developer who use surface reconstruction technique
ended reimplementing the normal estimation technique (e.g. as David
Doria did in one his VTK journal paper), or some other split the
vtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter into 2 classes (as we do in our group
for the development of gofigure2).<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Would it be possible to extract the normal estimation from
this class?</li>
</ul>
You can have a look at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://github.com/arnaudgelas/gofigure2/blob/master/trunk/Code/ExternalCode/PoissonReconstruction/vtkNormalEstimationFilter.h">http://github.com/arnaudgelas/gofigure2/blob/master/trunk/Code/ExternalCode/PoissonReconstruction/vtkNormalEstimationFilter.h</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://github.com/arnaudgelas/gofigure2/blob/master/trunk/Code/ExternalCode/PoissonReconstruction/vtkNormalEstimationFilter.cxx">http://github.com/arnaudgelas/gofigure2/blob/master/trunk/Code/ExternalCode/PoissonReconstruction/vtkNormalEstimationFilter.cxx</a><br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Would it be possible to rename the
vtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter? This method is not the only
method for surface reconstruction and is nowadays more popular
for its drawbacks/failures than some more recent methods (such
as Poisson reconstruction technique see Doria and Gelas VTK
Journal on the topic...).</li>
</ul>
<br>
Thanks in advance for considering this change,<br>
Best Regards,<br>
Arnaud<br>
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