Ylannl
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6 years ago One more note: I have added code to detect duplicate elevation points since we encountered a case where a duplicate point made my simplification code crash. Where to best put that code? Just keep it in the simplification section or is there a place where the duplicate-detection makes more sense?
This is a much faster method to TIN simplification than the drop-heuristics method that I implemented earlier. In fact in the few tests that I did it was faster than doing a full triangulation (ie. inserting all the lidar points), whereas the old approach was many times slower and practically useless for big datasets.
Quality wise the result should be comparable. However, I did not test that.
The drop-heuristics method is still there in the source, maybe it is better to remove that one.