Surface reconstruction

This tutorial will explain how to perform a surface reconstruction with napari-stress interactively from the napari viewer. This plugin implements the respective function from the vedo library. To get started, open your own data or use the provided sample data from napari-stress (raw data source):

Select the Reconstruct surface function from the plugin menu:

This will bring up the plugin widget:

Results

The radius controls the search radius of the algorithm: To reconstruct a surface, the function finds all neighboring points for a given point in the pointcloud to be considered for a surface. Setting this value too low will result in a leaky surface:

In creasing the value will fix this issue:

Such surfaces typically consist of a large ammount of vertices. This behaviour can be control with the padding parameter: Increasing it will simplify the obtained surface representation:

If you are interested in doing this from code, check out this example notebook=