Gradual Selection: How to select certain percentage of points

[smescarzaga]

I'm trying to automate a workflow that calls for the selection of a percentage of the sparse cloud at each iteration, rather than at some threshold of reconstruction uncertainty, projection error, etc. I've seen below where a threshold variable is passed into a gradual selection

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fltr = ps.PointCloud.Filter()
    fltr.init(chunk, ps.PointCloud.Filter.ReconstructionUncertainty)
    fltr.selectPoints(2 * thresh)

How I can I specify in the script to select a percentage of the initial points?

EDIT: As a clarification, I'd like the filter to select a percentage of the points in my cloud based on reconstruction uncertainty.

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello smescarzaga,

I can suggest to use the following approach:

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import Metashape as ps
chunk = ps.app.document.chunk
THRESHOLD = 10 #percentage values for selection


fltr = ps.PointCloud.Filter()
fltr.init(chunk, ps.PointCloud.Filter.ReconstructionUncertainty)
values = fltr.values.copy()
values.sort()
thresh = values[int(len(values)* (1-THRESHOLD/100))]
fltr.selectPoints(thresh)

It will set selected the given percentage of the points (THRESHOLD).

[smescarzaga]

This works great! Thank you Alexey!

[xyz]

I would like to apply this script to the total number of points as well.
Anybody knows how to do this? I was thinking about implementing len(chunk.point_cloud.points) in some way