SIGGRAPH 2026 paper PAT computes signed distance directly from point clouds
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-07-29
Nicole Feng's team presented "Points as Tori" (PAT) at SIGGRAPH 2026 for fast pointwise signed-distance evaluation on point clouds.
The repo implements PAT for oriented point clouds and claims it can compute signed distance directly at arbitrary spatial resolution without discretization, global optimization, or explicit reconstruction. The project includes Python/C++ code, a demo, and a streaming-friendly implementation.
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