Remeshing with Poisson Surface Reconstruction

In some cases, you may want to reconstruct triangle meshes from sets of oriented 3D points using Poisson surface reconstruction. This utility — 'vtkPoissonReconstruction' —was adapted from the original implementation by Kazhdan, Bolitho, and Hugues (2006). You should note that Poisson surface reconstruction offers a number of advantages for remeshing — it is a global solution that considers all the data at once without resorting to heuristic partitioning or blending, and it can create very smooth surfaces that robustly approximate noisy data.

An example of remeshing with Poisson surface reconstruction is shown below.

Original mesh (on left) and remeshed with Poisson surface reconstruction (on right)

Right-click the mesh you want to reconstruct and then choose Remesh with Poisson Surface Reconstruction to open the Mesh Smoothing dialog, shown below. You can choose the parameters for creating the new mesh in the dialog.

Mesh Smoothing dialog

Refer to the publication Michael Kazhdan, Matthew Bolitho, and Hugues Hoppe, Poisson Surface Reconstruction, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (2006), Konrad Polthier, Alla Sheffer (Editors) for additional information about Poisson surface reconstruction. This publication is available at: https://hhoppe.com/poissonrecon.pdf.