[vtkusers] Generation of triangulated surface from a point cloud

de Boer Ingo I.deBoer at polytec.de
Wed Oct 12 04:51:38 EDT 2005


Hi,

you can use the vtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter.
There is also a sample called "reconstructSurface.tcl"

greets
  Ingo

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> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [vtkusers] Generation of triangulated surface from a point
> cloud
> 
> 
> Dear VTK community:
> 
> I try to solve the following problem by using VTK: I have a 
> cloud of approx. 
> 50-200 points in 3D space. I am now looking for a 
> triangulated surface that 
> only uses these points (but all points!). Is their any way to 
> achieve this in 
> VTK. I know of vtkDelaunay3D, but the output is a tetrahedralized 
> unstructured mesh and I don't see how to extract the surface 
> triangles from 
> it.
> 
> Regards
>  Hendrik
> 
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