“A Linear Method to Consistently Orient Normals of a 3D Point Cloud”
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- A Linear Method to Consistently Orient Normals of a 3D Point Cloud
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Consistently orienting the normals of a point cloud is vital for subsequent geometry processing. We use Stokes’ theorem to turn this problem into finding the least-squares solution of a sparse linear system. Our method successfully orients normals computed locally from a point cloud and is considerably faster than state-of-the-art methods.
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