[SciPy-User] Point cloud to mesh

[Nils Wagner]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:59:13 +0000 (UTC)
  Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:16:29 +0100, Nils Wagner wrote:
>> I am looking for a python tool that constructs a 
>>polygonal mesh from a
>> set of 3D coordinates.
>> 
>> Any pointer would be appreciated.
> 
> Do you need the mesh to consist of triangles (surface 
>mesh), tetrahedra, 
> or some other shape? If tetrahedra are OK, you can use 
> scipy.spatial.Delaunay (in Scipy 0.9) to construct the 
>delaunay 
> tesselation. There's also the Delny package.
> 
>Fitting a surface mesh is then a different problem.
> 
> -- 
> Pauli Virtanen
> 
Hi,

I am looking for a surface mesh representation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_scanner#From_point_clouds

Nils