[Radiance-general] point cloud data (1) and hardware life (2)

[Gregory J. Ward]

The graphics group at Stanford University has done extensive work in  
this area.  See:

	http://graphics.stanford.edu/software/vrip/

-Greg

> From: Jack de Valpine <jedev at visarc.com>
> Date: March 15, 2007 2:45:01 PM PDT
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Sorry, it is not free, but you could check out the following  
> options at:
>
> http://www.fpsols.com/products.html
>
> It looks like they have plug-in solutions for Autocad and Rhino.
>
> -Jack de Valpine
>
> Martin Moeck wrote:
>> Hi Franceso, Meshlab seems to support meshes, but not point  
>> clouds? I have raw xyz coordinates from a scanner - no mesh.  
>> Martin -----Original Message----- From: radiance-general- 
>> bounces at radiance-online.org on behalf of Francesco Anselmo Sent:  
>> Thu 3/15/2007 1:40 PM To: Radiance general discussion Subject: Re:  
>> [Radiance-general] point cloud data (1) and hardware life (2) Hi  
>> Martin,
>>> 1) What algorithms or freeware would you suggest to make  
>>> triangles or polygons out of point cloud data obtained by 3D  
>>> laser scanning (historic architecture)? I need to minimize the  
>>> number of triangles and would prefer polygons.
>> I have used MeshLab http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ and VTK  
>> (directly or through MayaVI or Paraview) for similar purposes.  
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