From 8073356237ab333ca9fa1c5e7f69ad0e3684cb87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Leroy Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:03:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Create README.md --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b27ed92 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# G3Point + +Granulometry from 3D Point clouds +> Based on Steer, Guerit et al. (2022) + +![ForGitHub](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17555304/159018713-7272a95e-6400-4490-83f5-868248cffbcb.gif) + +## Introduction + +**G3Point** is a tool which aims at automatically measuring the size, shape, and orientation of a large +number of individual grains as detected from any type of 3D point clouds describing the topography of surfaces covered by sediments. +The tool has been developped initially in *Matlab* https://github.com/philippesteer/G3Point +This repository aims at making a plugin for CloudCompare from the original Matlab tool, also including later developments of the tool, either in *Matlab* (https://github.com/philippesteer/G3Point_dev) or in *Python* (https://github.com/p-leroy/g3point_python). +This algorithm relies on 3 main phases: +1. Grain **segmentation** using a waterhsed algorithm +2. Grain **merging and cleaning** +3. Grain **fitting by geometrical models** including ellipsoids and cuboids