STL files show nothing of the result
EthanGreen75 opened this issue · 5 comments
Hi,@manhofer
I build all the procedures in VS2013.
Finally, three files were generated but when I open the STL with any STL viewer, nothing show up. OBJ file seems work well and i can see the point clouds. I guess the every pair of points stands for one line in 3D space, is that right?
Could you tell me what software you are using for openning the STL file?
By the way, i use the software ABViewer to open STL file, nothing shows. But when i use the preview function of ABViewer i can see a 2D picture of the 3D structure. It's really strange could you give me some hints?
Am 24.05.2016 um 04:49 schrieb Ethan Green:
By the way, i use the software ABViewer to open STL file, nothing
shows. But when i use the preview function of ABViewer i can see a 2D
picture of the 3D structure. It's really strange could you give me
some hints?
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Hi
The .stl files are more or less just a workaround, and represent the 3D
lines as triangles where two of the endpoints are identical. I have used
this representation because it was also done this way in the paper by
Jain et al. from CVPR 2010 1, which was the motivation for my
approach. This means that some viewers might cancel out the 3D lines,
since the underlying triangles have a zero area.
I am always using the freeware tool Meshlab to open the .stl files (see
Readme file).
I will look into the possibility of changing the way the 3D lines are
represented in the .stl files, as real lines rather than "fake" triangles.
Best,
Manuel
Dipl.-Ing. Manuel Hofer
Schanzelgasse 24/23
A-8010 Graz
@manhofer ，
Thank you so much for your reply so quickly. It really helps me a lot.
You're welcome :-)
I will close this issue for now. If I change the stl representation I will let you know.