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Pointshop3D: An Interactive System for Point-Based Surface Editing


Richard Keiser, Markus Gross

Abstract Abstract | Publications

Pointshop3D is a system for interactive shape and appearance editing of 3D point-sampled geometry. By generalizing conventional 2D pixel editors, this system supports a wide variety of different interaction techniques for altering the shape and appearance of 3D point models, including cleaning, texturing, sculpting, carving, filtering and resampling. One key component of the framework is a novel concept for interactive point cloud parameterization allowing for distortion minimal and aliasing-free texture mapping. A second component is a dynamic, adaptive resampling method which builds upon a continuous reconstruction of the model surface and its attributes. With these techniques, the full functionality of 2D image editing operations can be transferred to the irregular 3D point setting. Pointshop3D system reads, processes and writes point-sampled models without intermediate tessellation. It is intended to complement existing low cost 3D scanners and point rendering pipelines for efficient 3D content creation.

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Publications Abstract | Publications
  • T. Weyrich, M. Pauly, R. Keiser, S. Heinzle, S. Scandella, M. Gross, Post-processing of Scanned 3D Surface Data, Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2004, pp. 85-94 (Eurographics Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2004)
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  • D. Cotting, T. Weyrich, M. Pauly, M. Gross, Robust Watermarking of Point-Sampled Geometry, Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeing and Applications 2004, pp. 233-242 (SMI04, Genova, Italy, June 7-9, 2004)
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  • M. Pauly, R. Keiser, L. Kobbelt, M. Gross, Shape Modeling with Point-sampled Geometry, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 (San Diego, USA, July 27-31, 2003), pp. 641-650
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  • M. Zwicker, M. Pauly, O. Knoll, M. Gross, Pointshop 3D: An interactive system for point-based surface editing, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 (San Antonio, TX, USA, July 20-27, 2002), pp. 322-329
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