Project 2: Surface Reconstruction

Project Structure

src: the folder to maintain sources
lib: the folder to maintain dependencies
shaders: shader files
data: point clouds in .xyz format (+ doraemon.off from the provided project)
.vscode: VSCode config files

Created an enum for determining the drawing mode of the program (point cloud or triangle mesh).
This is read as the fourth argument to the program (args[3]).
Created XYZLoader.java
This is a class for loading .xyz format files.
Does mostly the same stuff as the OFFLoader class, but reads normals (if they exist) and compute faces using RBF (TO BE DONE).
Created RBFInterpolator.java
This is a class for performing RBF interpolation.
The function evaluate() is called from sample() function in the DualContouring class.
The initial creation of matrix A takes quite long.
~~Currently uses the thin-plate formula because that seems to work the best.~~
Triharmonic function is somehow faster (and it works), so I'm using that for now.
Decided to use only 1/4 of the vertices for RBF to shorten the wait time until render.
Created setNormal() method in TriangleMesh.java
Since the class was missing a method to add normals...
Added lines in MeshNode.java to draw point clouds (render() method).
Adapted DualContouring.java to use TriangleMesh instead of Trimesh.
Created getMesh() method in DualContouring.java to directly acquire the triangle mesh.
Assign random color to the mesh.
Flipped the camera movement direction when arrow keys are pressed.
Changed the light source position.
... and few more adjustments that I can't recall

Load a 3D point-cloud using the xyz file format (list of point coordinates and normal)
Visualize the 3D point-cloud using OpenGL
Implement surface reconstruction with radial basis functions (RBF)
Implement the Marching Cubes algorithm to convert the zero level-set of the RBF to a triangle mesh
Implement data-structures for manipulating triangle meshes
Visualize the reconstructed surface using OpenGL

Some resources I found useful while implementing...