Python Script: Point Cloud Skinner

Bart · January 12, 2012

Convert your point cloud data into surfaces with this Python script for Blender.

Hans.P.G. writes:

This script, Point Cloud Skinner can skin a cloud of vertices, which means to create a 3D surfaced mesh out of just a cloud of vertices that has no faces. It can skin any shapes of point clouds, such as a surveyed geography point cloud that represents a landform somewhere, a fluid volumetric point cloud obtained by numerical fluid simulation, or anything you like. You can see some sample meshes that the script produced in “Results” part below.

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BlenderArtists: A Script to Skin a Point Cloud (for Blender 2.6x or Later)

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

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Arenyart

12 January 2012 at 20:21

Awesome! Great work.

Wray Bowling

12 January 2012 at 21:39

YEAH!!! This is excellent! :D

Calum Knott

12 January 2012 at 22:34

This is going to come in Very Very usefull for me….

Im looking at reconstructing a room from pointcloud data gained from a kinect sensor….

Casper Smits
13 January 2012 at 21:10
That was exactly what I was thinking. With the use of this script in combination with 2 or 3 kinect devices it should be able to reacreate an entire room in real time!!
That would be really awesome xD
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Zander Nicolic

13 January 2012 at 09:45

May be useful. I’ll give it a try soon. Thanks for sharing.

Michal Vašut

13 January 2012 at 10:33

looks great, but is it able to skin some dificult object (point cloud from kinect, …) ?

johnj

13 January 2012 at 17:33

do you think i can use that also for a quick retopo skinning? i duplicate the vertexes, then i skin them all…

Robert Elm

13 January 2012 at 17:39

This is what I’ve been waiting for! Great potential for easy 3d scanning. Use traditional sculpting techniques with disposable or reusable media like plasticine, scan it with kinect or a video camera using the freely available software, skin it and retopo that bugger! The more Blender is able to transcend the digital/natural media barrier the more potential our art will have to attract artists that would otherwise shun this media! This is a bigger step toward that than it may at first appear.

Geir Atle Storhaug

19 December 2018 at 15:10

Great plugin!

Do you have any plans to upgrade it to work with Blender 2.8?

Marco

5 January 2019 at 03:14

This script is awesome but I get an error message when I use delete face and edge and rerun the script, don’t know why.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\******\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\t26_PointCloudSkinner1_Umbrella.py”, line 1621, in execute
skin_verts() # main function of skinning
File “C:\Users\******\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\t26_PointCloudSkinner1_Umbrella.py”, line 263, in skin_verts
FaceCreater.add_by_vertices_raw(lc_mesh, poly_list)
File “C:\Users\******\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\t26_PointCloudSkinner1_Umbrella.py”, line 1369, in add_by_vertices_raw
mesh.tessfaces.add(len(poly_list))
RuntimeError: Error: Cannot add tessfaces to a mesh that already has polygons

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