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Hi Daniel,

First of all, great work!!! Thank you very much for all your efforts!

What about adding a possibility to import coordinates (from ascii) of control points for pairwise point cloud alignment (registration)?

This function would be great for scaling point clouds reconstructed from geo-tagged images!

Best,
Ola

Yes, why not. How do you see this option: using two separate files with the same number of points, or use a single file with 2 (equivalent) points per line?

By the way, the next release will present a new option to determine scale for the ICP algorithm. So you should be able to achieve almost the same result this way (open your 2 clouds of control points, roughly register both sets, apply the ICP registration with free scale then get the matrix and apply it to the true clouds).

Hi Daniel,

Sorry for my late reply. I guess 2 separate files would be easier for people who do not program, both options are fine for me :-)

Best regards,

Ola