[SciPy-User] STL from nArray (Delauney)

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

On 3/3/18 2:16 AM, Samuel Maybury wrote:
> Hi all,
> I’m self-taught in Python for my university honours project and its been one
> hell of a journey. Simply put I’m designing a 3D scanner-printer hybrid to aid
> in the creation of prosthetic limbs. So long story short I’m running the
> system on an RPi and you can find more information here, if you want to
> help: https://github.com/AcrimoniousMirth/Project-Adam-3D-SCANNER-CODE
>
> So, in essence I have an array of form*[[x1 y1 z1] [x2 y2 z2]… [xn yn zn]]
> *and I need to turn it into an STL mesh. A forum member pointed me in the
> direction of scipy’s Delauney triangulation. 
> Now, the values were appended into the array such that each group (of unknown
> size) will have the same *z *value and the next will have the closest *z
> *value to that. Due to how it was generated (with OpenCv) I can’t be entirely
> sure but I believe each group with the same z value was written in the same
> order and so the first of *z1* should be close to the first of *z2.*
> *
> *
> Your help is greatly appreciated as this is very new territory to me and I’m
> not sure where to start. This is the final hurdle in the way of me graduating
> with a pretty good accreditation and two charities are interested in the idea
> so it’d be a blessing to get it working!
This isn't going to do the triangulation but is handy to manipulate STL files
from Python:

https://github.com/WoLpH/numpy-stl

cheers,
Prabhu
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