You're right, of course -- I'm sort of learning about the published methods 
while at the same time searching for implementations. For instance, the 
reason I mentioned Meshes is that I saw it had an implementation of the 
marching cubes algorithm, and I was hoping it might be easy enough to 
quickly try a test case.

On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 10:05:44 AM UTC-8, Tamas Papp wrote:
>
> This is not a Julia-specific problem: you need to decide what algorithm 
> to use, which depends on what you know about your surface. 
>
> Eg if it is a function f(x,y), and reasonably smooth and differentiable 
> over some domain, you can use a family of basis functions to interpolate 
> -- see ApproxFun.jl. If it is some more general surface, you would need 
> other algorithms or transformations; there are no general ones (this is 
> the nature of the problem) and you will need to make some assumptions. 
>
> Best, 
>
> Tamas 
>
> On Wed, Feb 17 2016, Chris wrote: 
>
> > If I have a set of 3D points, randomly sampled from some arbitrary 
> surface, 
> > what are my options (in terms of Julia packages) for reconstructing the 
> > surface for plotting? I've done a little research and found the 
> Meshes.jl 
> > package, but I can't find any good examples or documentation for it. In 
> > case it's not already obvious, I'm completely new to this topic, so any 
> > direction would be appreciated. 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Chris 
>
>

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