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Subject: Re: Why is point-based rendering used?
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:15:15 -0800, jogging wrote:

> It is easy to render triangle meshes. Why is point-based rendering used?

Converting a point cloud to a mesh requires knowing which vertices are
part of the same triangle, and that information presumably isn't available.