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Today, polygonal models occur everywhere in graphical applications, since they are easy
to render and to compute and a very huge set of tools are existing for generation and
manipulation of polygonal data. But modern scanning devices that allow a high quality
and large scale acquisition of complex real world models often deliver a large set of
points as resulting data structure of the scanned surface. A direct triangulation of those
point clouds does not always result in good models. They often contain problems like
holes, self-intersections and non manifold structures. Also one often looses important
surface structures like sharp corners and edges during a usual surface reconstruction.
So it is suitable to stay a little longer in the point based world to analyze the point cloud
data with respect to such features and apply a surface reconstruction method afterwards
that is known to construct continuous and smooth surfaces and extend it to reconstruct
sharp features.