[vtkusers] Least square sphere, cylinder and cone.

[Tuhin Sinha]

Bernard,

  Have a look at this paper, it may help you get started....

"Least-squares orthogonal distances fitting of circle, sphere, ellipse, 
hyperbola, and parabola"
Ahn SJ, Rauh W, Warnecke HJ
PATTERN RECOGNITION 34 (12): 2283-2303 DEC 2001

Best regards,

Tuhin Sinha

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 06:02, Bernard DUCELIERIN wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am making an application where I need to compute
> the best plane, sphere, cylinder or cone from a set of
> point. I found in vtkTextureMapToPlane.cxx the method to
> compute the least square plane, but nothing for sphere,
> cylinder and cone.
>
> Does anybody know where I could find in VTK (or anywhere
> else) something to least square sphere, cylinder and cone ?
>
> Best regards.
>
> Bernard DUCELIERIN
>
>
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