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Thank you very much Daniel for your response and the formula. I can read French well enough, but unfortunately it is my lack of formal training in mathematical notation that is the problem. Would you mind explaining in layman's terms what the gradient formula is doing here? I really appreciate your ...

I was wondering if you could explain how scalar field gradients are calculated. I understand that they are a ratio of the change in the scalar field across a certain distance, but can you provide any more detailed information? Is it an average of change between the point and its nearest neighbors? D...

Thanks for your response Daniel. M3C2 does not seem to display the volume in the console and I've had trouble estimating the volume using the cylinders volume, probably because of so much overlap. The result is far too large. I have noticed though that if I use C2M and multiply the average distance ...

Hello! I was wondering if there is a method for calculating volume only use the signed differences scalar field. I have a point cloud representing a fairly uneven and curved surface. I created a convex hull of the cloud and calculated the distances between the two. I would like to calculate the volu...