Power SubD-NURBS

 From:  Michael Gibson
5088.51 In reply to 5088.50 
Hi Danny,

> Does the geometry library have a kind of fit surface to point cloud?

Kind of but it tends to generate wiggly and undulating results, so it's not all that useful as-is.

Also it needs to be given a parameterization, basically an initial starting surface that is then basically deformed to interpolate the given points in the point cloud. The only really easy automatic starting surface is a best fit plane, but that doesn't work very well for point clouds that have some kind of complex 3D shape in them.

You generally can't fit just a single surface to some complex arbitrary point cloud as it may have various complex branches in it, usually such things have to be fit with a sequence of surface patches and not just one surface.

- Michael