[SciPy-User] Point cloud to mesh

[Pauli Virtanen]

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.

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Pauli Virtanen