You've scanned a room or object and now you have lots of discrete scans you want to fit together. Dr Mike Pound explains how the Iterative Closest Point Algorithm is used.

this video was originally titled "Joining Point Cloud Scans" and was renamed for clarity Feb 2023

Stanford graphics resources: http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Ds...

Mesh Lab:
https://www.meshlab.net/

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