Shrink wrap a LIDAR point cloud of a tree

Hello-

I'm trying to shrink wrap a mesh around a point cloud generated by a laser scanner. Since it's a scan of trees/vegitation, the points are not just on the outer surface but all through the shape (see the example file).

I need to reproduce the general size, shape and locations of trees in an existing place, so I cannot just sketch in some trees. my output needs to be rough blobs approximating the shape of the tree or group of trees. I have run a MeshFromPoints on the clouds but that generates a random jumble of mesh faces.

What I 'll need is to be able to "tune" the shrink wrap's complexity/resolution.

I'm a complete GH newbie and I'm not looking for somebody to do the work for me but -

A) is there a grasshopper solution that gets me close

B) can you point me to some tutorials

C) process many of trees / stands of trees

I hope this describes the problem accurately.

Attachments:

tree points sample.3dm, 360 KB

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Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on May 30, 2017 at 11:19am

Hi.

I'm not sure this is what you are after BTW,

You can voxelize your ptcloud data by using "volvox" plug-in and subdivide & smooth by using "Weaverbird" plug-in.

Attachments:

VoxelizePtCloud.gh, 129 KB

Permalink Reply by Sam Ammar on May 30, 2017 at 2:08pm

thanks very much I truly appreciate this.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on May 30, 2017 at 11:23am

Hello Sam,

maybe this could help you.

you need to install volvox and weaverbird to open file. Volvox lets you reference and edit point clouds in grasshopper and weaverbird is useful for meshes.