Tools mesh2pcd producing an extra set of spurious points

[ana-GT]

I am using PCL-1.7 to generate .pcd files from .ply. Specifically the source file located in src/tools/mesh2pcd.cpp. I have 2 observations:

1. The code is still using pcl::visualizer:: renderViewTesselatedSphere (...). It should be using pcl::apps::RenderViewsTesselatedSphere(), otherwise it SEGFAULT with some .ply files.
2. The result obtained (the .pcd file) has some extra spurious plane points that do not belong to the original .ply file. As an example, here the original image of a file jar1.ply: http://i.imgur.com/WONtTAz.png
   And here the output I got (notice the plane crossing the left side of the jar):
   http://i.imgur.com/qmW8dpA.png

PS.- The change I made to the mesh2pcd file is here: (lines 145 to 155 mainly):
http://pastebin.com/ST3g5Twt

[jspricke]

Hi Ana,

thanks a lot for your contribution! Could you probably make this a pull request?This would make it much easier for us to review and you would be listed as the original contributor. Feel free to ask me if you need help with it.

Cheers Jochen

[nizar-sallem]

I just have a remark on this: we should fix the tesselated sphere stuff in the visualizer before since the use of pcl/apps/render_views_tesselated_sphere.h doesn't really make much sense.

[rbrusu]

@ana-GT thanks for the report. Can you please open up a pull request as @jspricke suggested? Thanks.

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