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MeshLab is an open source program for editing 3D triangle mesh files in various formats. It is used in 3D scanning and virtual reality applications.

MeshLab is a open source desktop program for editing 3-D triangle mesh files in various formats used in 3-D scanning and virtual reality. It was originally developed as a didactical experiment at the University of Pisa and is actively maintained at the Visual Computing Lab of the Italian National Research Council.

Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X versions are available at the MeshLab official site.

Its capabilities include importing and exporting 3-D triangular mesh files in various formats, mesh visualization, and mesh editing functions such as cleaning, painting, remeshing, selecting and deleting parts of the mesh, and colorization.

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Can I generate Point Cloud from mesh?

I'm trying to generate point cloud data from mesh such as (.obj) file of Maya. But, I could find out only the opposite case, point cloud to mesh on the internet. Is there any way to create "point cloud data from mesh" using 3D tools like MeshLab or…
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Coloring mesh edges in meshlab

I have been working on an algorithm that takes a mesh, does some fancy things with it, and produces some output. To visualize the result I decided to produce a copy of the mesh, colour it in a smart way that is somehow related to the produced…
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MeshLab: How to import XYZRGB file

When I import and XYZRGB (that I generate programatically), MeshLab renders the point-cloud, but the colors are missing. How can I assign textures/colors to vertices. I have tried "Vertex Attribute Transfer" but nothing happens.
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MeshLab normalmap

In the previous(1.3.3) Meshlab version,when choosing Render->shaders->normalmap, the normal map with the familiar blue-purple colormap would show the correct normal map: In the current (2016.12) version, the normal map is not shown,only the…
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Can't run meshlabserver filters on a headless virtual environment

I have meshlab installed on debian 9.4 using sudo apt-get install meshlab first when trying to dump on the filters list sudo xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 800x600x24" meshlabserver -d filters it fails with this log Loading Plugins: Current Plugins Dir…
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How to export 3D pointcloud as a rendered Voxel grid?

I have a scene consisting of several colorized voxels. When opening it in meshlab all points are plotted as 2 dimensional squares. Is it possible to render a scene where the squares are replaced by 3D cubes with additional lightning / reflectivity…
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Meshlab - Get IDs of selected vertices

I want to select a region of the mesh and get the IDs of the selected vertices, so that I can use them in my custom c++ processing pipeline. For example if there is a 3d hand mesh, one can choose the vertices that belong to every fingertip. Getting…
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Texture mapping using Meshlab

What is the easiest way of mapping a texture image on top of a bare 3D mesh using Meshlab, where the UV texture coordinates have not been specified?
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How to show the heat map for the Hausdorff distance in MeshLab?

Using the filter Sampling->Hausdorff Distance in MeshLab I computed the distance between a mesh and a target mesh. How can I save the point to point distance and render it on a heat map or a plot it on a Histogram?
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How to draw lines in .ply files using Meshlab?

For example, I want to choose two points from all the point clouds, and draw a line between them. I'm using Meshlab to deal with .ply files but I don't know how to accomplish this. Can I do this using Meshlab or other ways?
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Where is undo function?

I am trying Meshlab, but immediately hit an issue with the apparent lack of an 'Undo" command after trying a cleanup transformation that had undesired results. As a (less than ideal) workaround I tried the 'reload' function, which simply displayed…
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How do I visualize a camera position and orientation in Meshlab?

I have a point cloud together with a set of camera positions from which the cloud was generated. I understand that I can specify the point cloud using the .ply file format, and visualize the point cloud in Meshlab. I would like to visualize the…
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MeshLab: Render obj file with my own computed normals

I am trying to write a obj file with vertices. I am computing the vertex normals in my code and writing to this file as well. When I try to render this file in Meshlab it reads the vertices correctly, but when I go to 'Render->Show vertex normals',…
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Meshlabserver on MacOS won't work

I'm trying to use Meshlab to batch process OBJ files (quadric edge decimation, save out a smaller file). But every time I try to launch Meshlabserver through Terminal I get an error: dyld: Library not loaded:…
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Poisson mesh reconstruction

Using Meshlab ver. 1.3.3, I used to perform mesh reconstruction by using Remeshing, Simplification and Reconstruction ► Surface Reconstruction: Poisson. I have now installed Meshlab 2016, and Poisson reconstruction seems to have vanished... Where…
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