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Matlad: Reducing point clouds while maintaining crucial details.

Thread starter carwyn
Start date Jul 26, 2007

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Jul 26, 2007

carwyn

Nuclear

A fairly general question so there is room for a range of method/matlab function suggestions:

I have (lots of) point cloud data (XYZ coordinates), which give details of an object geometry.
I need to reduce the number of points for processing, though it is important to maintain a higher number of points in areas where the geometry is more complex.

Any thoughts?