Distance calculation issues

[kachlica]

I would like to ask what is a main difference between the "classical" cloud-to-cloud distance computation and PluginM3C2 distance computation respectively what to understand under term"singed distance" (I guess that is the issue:))

[daniel]

Well indeed the M3C2 algorithm is the only one for now that can compute signed distances between clouds. But it is also much more evolved than the simple "nearest neighbor distance" one. You'll have to read the article though to fully understand it (and to "tame" it ;).

http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1183