[vtkusers] Surface Construction from a point cloud

Tim Hutton T.Hutton at eastman.ucl.ac.uk
Tue Apr 13 06:02:44 EDT 2004


Shyam,

These point sets aren't surfaces, just loops. To reconstruct a surface you 
need (at least approximately) to enclose a 3D volume.

Tim

At 18:42 07/04/2004 +0530, R K Shyam Prakash wrote:
>Hi,
>         Attached files sample1.pts and sample2.pts gives the input 
> points. I would like to build a surface between these to point sets. I 
> tried vtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter as well as triangulating manually. 
> But I am not able to get a satisfactory surface. I feel there should be 
> an easier solution for this in VTK but not able to determine one. Can you 
> please help me with this.
>
>Thanks
>Shyam





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