Pointcloud

class compas.geometry.Pointcloud

Bases: Geometry

Class for working with pointclouds.

Parameters:

pointssequence[point]

A sequence of points to add to the cloud.

namestr, optional

The name of the pointcloud.

Examples

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Attributes:

pointslist[compas.geometry.Point]

The points of the cloud.

Methods

add	Add another pointcloud to this pointcloud.
closest_point	Compute the closest point on the pointcloud to a given point.
closest_points	Compute the closest point on the pointcloud to a given point.
difference	Compute the difference with another pointcloud.
from_bounds	Construct a point cloud within a given box.
from_box	Construct a point cloud within a given box.
from_pcd	Construct a pointcloud from a PCD file.
from_ply	Construct a pointcloud from a PLY file.
subtract	Subtract another pointcloud from this pointcloud.
transform	Apply a transformation to the pointcloud.
union	Compute the union with another pointcloud.

Inherited Methods

ToString	Converts the instance to a string.
compute_aabb	Compute the axis-aligned bounding box of the geometry.
compute_obb	Compute the oriented bounding box of the geometry.
copy	Make an independent copy of the data object.
from_json	Construct an object of this type from a JSON file.
from_jsonstring	Construct an object of this type from a JSON string.
rotate	Rotate the geometry.
rotated	Returns a rotated copy of this geometry.
scale	Scale the geometry.
scaled	Returns a scaled copy of this geometry.
sha256	Compute a hash of the data for comparison during version control using the sha256 algorithm.
to_json	Convert an object to its native data representation and save it to a JSON file.
to_jsonstring	Convert an object to its native data representation and save it to a JSON string.
transformed	Returns a transformed copy of this geometry.
translate	Translate the geometry.
translated	Returns a translated copy of this geometry.
validate_data	Validate the data against the object's data schema.