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rowild

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Batch Process offers "Point Spacing" for "Build Point Cloud"...
« on: October 07, 2024, 05:47:40 PM »
...but the regular "Build Point Cloud" interface does not. I am sure I miss something: Maybe the feature is called differently? Or is there a reason why this option is not available in the "regular mode"?

olihar

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Re: Batch Process offers "Point Spacing" for "Build Point Cloud"...
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2024, 07:12:42 PM »

Its the same if you run filter afterwards for point spacing.

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Re: Batch Process offers "Point Spacing" for "Build Point Cloud"...
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2024, 08:08:39 PM »
Thank you, @olihar! In "Tools => Point Cloud" I see to filter functions, one deal with confidence, the other with selection. No method that deals with "point spacing". Unless either of the aforementioned 2  methods is the pendant to the Batch Process's "Point Spacing"?

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Re: Batch Process offers "Point Spacing" for "Build Point Cloud"...
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2024, 09:58:22 PM »
Thank you, @olihar! In "Tools => Point Cloud" I see to filter functions, one deal with confidence, the other with selection. No method that deals with "point spacing". Unless either of the aforementioned 2  methods is the pendant to the Batch Process's "Point Spacing"?

Select Filter Point Cloud, its the top one, Then you can decide on Point Spacing.

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Re: Batch Process offers "Point Spacing" for "Build Point Cloud"...
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2024, 10:37:48 PM »
Sorry, but I don't know which one you mean. I am using the test version...

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Re: Batch Process offers "Point Spacing" for "Build Point Cloud"...
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2024, 12:13:17 PM »

Select Process

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Re: Batch Process offers "Point Spacing" for "Build Point Cloud"...
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2024, 08:28:37 PM »
Dense point cloud can be built straight from depth maps when you follow the old-fashioned workflow. In that case yo have no chance to set the spacing to a given value, but rather it comes out as preset according to the quality chosen your depth maps.
Still you can use tools/point cloud/filter point cloud to resample the cloud afterwards to a given distance

Another way to get a dense cloud is to sample it onto the mesh, and in this modern way you gain the ability to set the desired regular spacing. Choose the mesh as source. The method come with some advantage as well because the dense cloud inherits the consistency of the mesh, and most of the times comes out a lot cleaner and free of disgusting artefacts we often see in old style dense clouds, such as noisy and sky tinted points.

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