Cleaning your sparse cloud via gradual selection

[Shovelhead]

I've been experimenting cleaning my sparse cloud with gradual selection using the techniques listed is the following USGS handbook (https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2021/1039/ofr20211039.pdf)

However after significantly cleaning up the sparse cloud and removing a large number of bad points, once I create my dense cloud it is almost identical to the dense cloud I created by not cleaning the sparse cloud.

Has anyone else observed this? Is it a waste of time and effort to clean the sparse cloud?

[Skel]

I have seen the same thing. I recommend not cleaning the sparse cloud, I usually jump right to the dense cloud and clean that instead. With the 2.0 version, I have noticed that sometime the cleaning you do in dense cloud will show up in the mesh again, but I have not experimented with it too much to know what settings you need to have to keep it reading the cleaned dense cloud.