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From: gtravan@adam.ua.oz (george travan dentistry)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: 3D shape fitting
Keywords: 3D SHAPE ANALYSIS
Message-ID: <134@adam.ua.oz>
Date: 20 Oct 89 00:22:30 GMT
Organization: University of Adelaide, South Australia
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 could someone give me a pointer to an algorithm that may be able to 'fit'
two meshes together. more specifically i have two regular meshes which 
represent iso-surfaces. i want to see how close 'in a lock and key' sense
they fit together. i cant use least squares because there are no identifiable
or corresponding landmarks on the two meshes, which are meshes generated
through arbitrary data.

you can imagine a mesh with a hill and another mesh with a trough, how can
you determine how close they can be made to correspond?

i hope this makes sense...

--GeO                     George Travan
			  University of Adelaide
			  AUSTRALIA.

			  e-mail:  gtravan@adam.ua.oz
				   george@frodo.ua.oz