Moving from point cloud to solid mesh
I am trying to make a complex set of points in a 3D render. I have a bunch of layers, each with multiple polygons, each polygon with a different number of points.
I played with a lot of .NET libraries (wrappers for OpenGL, DirectX, etc.) and ended up arriving at a super simple WPF 3D control using the Helix Toolkit just to render 3D point clouds renderings. My super simple code looks like this:
private void Render3D(List<Layer> layers) {
var layerIndex = 0;
var pts = new Point3DCollection();
foreach (var layer in layers) {
foreach (var shape in layer.Shapes) {
foreach (var point in shape.Points) {
pts.Add(new Point3D(point.Item1, point.Item2, layerIndex * .5));
}
}
layerIndex++;
}
var vis = new PointsVisual3D() { Points = pts };
_viewport.Children.Add(vis);
}
My XAML looks like this:
<Window xmlns:h="http://helix-toolkit.org/wpf">
<h:HelixViewport3D Name="_viewport">
<h:SunLight />
</h:HelixViewport3D>
</Window>
The result of this code, along with my ordered data, looks like this:
This is great and I was very happy to see my data in 3D, but I would like to go ahead and start actually rendering solid shapes from my point data, like this:
I am using .NET and will stick with that platform if possible, but I am open to other ideas. Hopefully this is agnostic enough to get a pointed answer.
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