Simplify Points
Input data: at least one grid point cloud must be selected.
Output: a new unstructured point cloud is created for each structured cloud in input.
This functions takes as input a set of structured point clouds. For each of them, it determines the most relevant points from a point of view of shape description, and it saves them into the new unstructured point cloud. These resulting clouds work as compact representations of the original structured ones. They can be hyperlinked to the original clouds, so that you can open the original data on demand.
The function works by creating a mesh in background of each input cloud, and by inserting into the resulting cloud the mesh's vertices.