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2.10 CloudCompare User Manual
CloudCompare is a 3D point cloud (and triangular mesh) processing software package. It was originally designed to
perform comparisons between two dense 3D points clouds, such as the ones acquired with a laser scanner, or between
a point cloud and a triangular mesh. It relies on a specific octree structure dedicated to this task. More recently, it was
extended to perform more generic point cloud processing, including many advanced algorithms (registration,
resampling, color/normal/scalar fields handling, statistics computation, sensor management, interactive or automatic
segmentation, display enhancement, and so on).
For a list of CloudCompare functionalities, see the documentation page and the wiki:
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http://www.cloudcompare.org/documentation.html
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http://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
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License
The license of the CCLib library (containing the core algorithms) is LGPL version 2.0.
Due to its LGPL license, CCLib can be integrated in any commercial or non-commercial project. You just must
share any modification of the code with the authors.
The license of the other components is GPL (version 2.0). The components are:
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qCC_db (database library)
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qCC_io (file I/O library)
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qCC_gl (OpenGL based 3D display library)
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CloudCompare and ccViewer (standalone applications)
Only GPL-compatible (which means open-source, but not necessarily free) projects can use the other components.
Figure 71. CloudCompare
Figure 72. CloudCompare License
