Meshing of Point Clouds from a 3Dlaser scanner

Question

Is there any package/software which can do Meshing of Point Clouds in real time? What is the data structure used to represent 3D Point Clouds ?

Accepted Answer

MeshLab is a great one for meshing point clouds.

Look under Filters > Re-meshing, simplification and reconstruction. Ball Pivoting Surface Reconstruction and Poisson Reconstruction are good ones.

Here you can find a tutorial on Meshing Point Clouds using MeshLab.

As for representing your point cloud the easiest format to use is the XYZ format:

```
X1 Y1 Z1
X2 Y2 Z2
etc.
```

Another good format that is relatively easy to use is Object (OBJ) model format.

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