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by magicalhippo 613 days ago
> A point cloud is basically a 3D texture of colors and densities

That's not how I'm familiar with it. As I know it[1], a point cloud is literally that, a collection of individual points, that represents an object scene.

While what you describe is like the scalar field[2] I mentioned, each position in space has some value. You can render them directly like you say, I was thinking to extract geometry a level-set method could be interesting.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_cloud

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar_field