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+src/flatpoints/data/seed.npy is a point cloud of the Hyperuniform samples database
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flatpoints-0.1.0/MANIFEST.in

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+# sdist: the package, licences and docs only. The example point clouds (data/) are
+# third-party and are downloaded on demand (flatpoints.load), the plots stay on GitHub.
+include README.md Method.md LICENSE LICENSE-rectangular-conformal-map
+include src/flatpoints/data/seed.npy
+prune data
+prune plots
+prune data_compressed
+global-exclude __pycache__ *.py[cod]

flatpoints-0.1.0/Method.md

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+# Method
+
+flatpoints takes a point cloud sampled on a surface and returns one or two square images: each point of the cloud on its own pixel, neighbour pixels holding neighbour points.
+
+```
+points ──► mesh, cut into disks ──► map onto a square (conformal) ──► gridify (conformal to equal area) ──► image
+```
+
+This is the *geometry image* of Gu, Gortler & Hoppe (2002), with one difference: no
+resampling. The pixels are the input points themselves, so `flat.pixels` gives the exact
+point <-> pixel correspondence.
+
+## 1. Mesh and cut
+
+A square is a topological disk, so the surface must first be cut into disks, the faces.
+
+- **Mesh**: mesh the point cloud using screened Poisson reconstruction (open3d) 
+- **Cut**: a closed surface is split into two faces, left and right of the median along
+  `normal_axis`; an open surface is a single face. Faces grow triangle by triangle and
+  only accept triangles that keep them a disk, so handles and holes are left cut open.
+- **Points**: each point is projected onto the mesh and takes the face of its triangle.
+
+## 2. Conformal map
+
+Each face is mapped onto the unit square by a rectangular conformal map (Meng, Choi & Lui
+2016). Each point takes the uv_conformal of its projection on the mesh.
+
+## 3. Grid
+
+The points of each face are sorted onto an n x n grid by their uv_conformal (gridpoints). The resulting one to one matching
+```
+point -> pixel = face, row, column
+```
+is the final output of the flatpoints. Due to the one to one assignement, the flattening is by construction an area preserving transformation.
+
+## Limits
+
+- **Cuts**: points on either side of a cut are neighbours on the surface but not in the images. This apply to the left / right cut of the single_face = False pipeline, but also on further topological closedness of the surface (e.g. for a torus), which will also be cut.
+- **Tears**: the grid cannot follow the uv exactly, so a few adjacent pixels hold points
+  several spacings apart (2.7% beyond 3 spacings on the bunny).
+- **Meshing**: since flatpoints operate on point cloud with unkown surface, the overal precision of the flattening will depend on the quality of the meshing performed by open3d.
+
+## References
+
+X. Gu, S. J. Gortler and H. Hoppe, "Geometry Images", SIGGRAPH 2002.
+[hhoppe.com/proj/gim](https://hhoppe.com/proj/gim/)
+
+T. W. Meng, G. P.-T. Choi and L. M. Lui, "TEMPO: Feature-Endowed Teichmüller Extremal
+Mappings of Point Clouds", SIAM J. Imaging Sciences, 9(4), 2016.

flatpoints-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: flatpoints
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Flatten a point cloud into square images where neighbour pixels are neighbour points
+Author: Armand de Cacqueray
+License-Expression: MIT AND Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints
+Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints
+Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/blob/main/Method.md
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/issues
+Keywords: point cloud,geometry images,surface parameterization,conformal map,mesh,flattening,resampling,compression,3D,computer graphics,geometry processing
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14
+Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
+Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
+Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+License-File: LICENSE-rectangular-conformal-map
+Requires-Dist: numpy
+Requires-Dist: scipy
+Requires-Dist: gridpoints>=1.1
+Requires-Dist: open3d
+Provides-Extra: viz
+Requires-Dist: matplotlib; extra == "viz"
+Requires-Dist: Pillow; extra == "viz"
+Provides-Extra: compress
+Requires-Dist: PyWavelets; extra == "compress"
+Requires-Dist: Pillow; extra == "compress"
+Provides-Extra: all
+Requires-Dist: matplotlib; extra == "all"
+Requires-Dist: PyWavelets; extra == "all"
+Requires-Dist: Pillow; extra == "all"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# flatpoints
+
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/flatpoints)](https://pypi.org/project/flatpoints/)
+[![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-neighborhood--grid%2Fflatpoints-181717?logo=github)](https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints)
+
+Turn a 3D point cloud sampled on a latent (unknown) surface into something flat.
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <th>INPUT: raw point cloud</th>
+    <th>OUTPUT: flat transformation</th>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/main/plots/resampling/bunny_points_plot.png" alt="bunny points"></td>
+    <td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/main/plots/animation/bunny.webp" alt="bunny flat"></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+[▶️ bunny 🐇 ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/main/plots/animation/bunny.webp) \
+[▶️ dragon🐉 ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/main/plots/animation/dragon.webp) \
+[▶️ elephant 🐘 ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/main/plots/animation/elephant.webp) \
+
+flatpoints takes a raw point cloud `(N, 3)` and arranges its points on a square `(n, n)`
+grid of pixels:
+
+- **one pixel per point**: each point gets its own pixel, idx -> (row, column)
+- **neighbour pixels hold neighbour points**: two adjacent pixels hold two points close
+  on the surface, so the image is a continuous picture of the surface.
+
+Any data attached to the points, `(N, *C)`, then becomes an image `(n, n, *C)`: the xyz
+coordinates, normals, colours, features... and the whole 2D toolbox applies to the point
+cloud: convolutions and CNNs, SVD, grid interpolation…
+
+This is the idea of the *geometry images* of [Gu, Gortler & Hoppe (2002)](https://hhoppe.com/proj/gim/),
+which remesh a surface onto a completely regular grid. flatpoints applies it directly to a point cloud. 
+How it works: see [Method.md](https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/blob/main/Method.md).
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install flatpoints                # core: numpy, scipy, gridpoints, open3d
+pip install "flatpoints[viz]"         # + matplotlib, Pillow (plots, animations)
+pip install "flatpoints[compress]"    # + PyWavelets, Pillow (compression)
+#or pip install "flatpoints[all]"     # (everything)
+```
+
+## Quickstart
+
+Take a raw 3D point cloud `(N, 3)` and turn it into images.
+Available models: bunny, dragon, elephant, airplane, cow, everest… (`fp.datasets()`)
+
+```python
+import flatpoints as fp
+fp.exemple_flat("bunny")   # prints the shapes, plots the surface and its images
+fp.exemple_flat("bunny", save="plots", animate=True)  # + saves plots/bunny.png and plots/animation/bunny.webp
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+```python
+import numpy as np
+import flatpoints as fp
+
+xyz = fp.load("bunny") #raw (N, 3) points, on a latent (unknown) surface
+z = xyz[:, -1] #(N, *C) any data related to the point cloud, e.g. the z coordinate
+
+# ==== Build the flat object ============
+
+flat = fp.Flat(xyz) # Apply the flattening processing of the surface
+
+# ==== Use it: pixels and images ========
+
+i = 42 #point with index 42 (xyz[42])
+face, row, col = flat.pixels[i] # face: 0 or 1 (see the Cut section)
+image_z = flat.to_image(z)    # full pixel image,  (N, *C) to  (1, n, n, *C) or (2, n, n, *C)
+fig = flat.plot()           # the surface in 3D and its images 
+fig = flat.imshow(z)        # plot any data on the images
+anim = flat.imshow(z, animate="z.webp") # animated version
+```
+
+### Cut
+
+To map the surface properly to a square, flatpoints need to cut it first in two hemispheres \
+if needed. The hemispheric cut will remove some (not all) topological closedness. Residual  \
+closedness (e.g. for a torus, which cannot be opened by a single cut) will also be automatically \
+cut by shearing the surface further on each hemisphere.
+
+- Use `fp.Flat(points, single_face=True)` for an open surface (e.g. a terrain), \
+to flatten it on a single image.
+- Use `fp.Flat(points, single_face=False)` for a closed surface (e.g. a dragon), \
+to flatten left and right hemispheres independently, on two images.
+
+`normal_axis` (fp.Flat(points, single_face=..., normal_axis = "x")) is the axis the \
+surface is seen along. With `single_face = False` (two hemispheres), the surface is cut \
+roughly across it, so it has a strong impact on the result: choose an axis consistent \
+with your point cloud (e.g. the third axis of a PCA). With `single_face = True` (open \
+surface), it only orients the image (which way is up, where the corners go); the mesh \
+itself is built in 3D, without any projection.
+
+See `fp.exemple_flat` ([examples.py](https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/blob/main/src/flatpoints/examples.py)).
+
+## Application: resampling a point cloud
+
+```python
+fp.exemple_sampler("bunny", save="plots")      # plots/resampling/bunny_resampled.png
+```
+
+Sampling from a mesh is easy: sample uniformly on each triangle. Resampling from a point
+cloud is harder, because there is no surface to sample from, only points.
+
+The images provide that missing surface: `to_image(xyz)` maps the unit square onto the
+cloud. So one can sample points in the unit square and transport them onto the surface by
+bilinear interpolation of the xyz image, (row, col) → xyz.
+
+By default, `flat.resample` uses a hyperuniform 2D seed (blue noise), so the new points are
+fairly evenly spread over the surface.
+
+```python
+sampler = flat.resample(n_points=512)   # n new points in total
+new = sampler.points                    # (512, 3)
+sampler.plot()                          # before / after
+other = flat.resample(n_points=512, seed=1)  # a new resampling, with different seed
+```
+**To be honest:** if you only need a subset of the input points, farthest point sampling
+(FPS) are more uniform than flatpoints (figure below), this is mainly an exemple usecase to show how to use the images to transport properties (like good spatial repartition) from the simple unit square to an arbitrary surface.
+
+
+![hyperuniform resampling: comparison](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/main/plots/resampling/bunny_comparison.png)
+
+## Application: compressing a point cloud
+
+needs PyWavelets and Pillow (`pip install "flatpoints[compress]"`)
+
+```python
+fp.exemple_compression("bunny", save="plots")  # plots/compression/bunny.png
+```
+
+Since neighbour pixels hold neighbour points, the xyz images are smooth, and smooth images
+compress well. `flat.compress` compresses them with one of three methods
+([compressor.py](https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/blob/main/src/flatpoints/compressor.py)):
+
+- `"svd"`: truncated SVD 
+- `"dct"`: 2D DCT
+- `"wavelet"`: 2D wavelets
+
+`factor` is the fraction of the storage saved against the points in float32 (96 bits per
+point).
+
+```python
+comp = flat.compress(factor=0.8)  # save 80% of the storage, best method
+comp.method                       # "dct"
+comp.code                         # what is stored, e.g. quantized DCT coefficients and step
+comp.points                       # (N, 3) reconstructed points, in the input order
+flat.compress(0.8, method="svd")  # a given method
+comp.save("compressed.jp2")       #save the compressed structure
+points = fp.Compressor.read("compressed.jp2") #reconstructed (N, 3) point cloud
+```
+
+![compression of the bunny](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/main/plots/compression/bunny.png)
+
+## Licence
+
+- code: MIT, except `src/flatpoints/rcm.py`.
+- `src/flatpoints/rcm.py`: Python port (modified) of
+  [garyptchoi/rectangular-conformal-map](https://github.com/garyptchoi/rectangular-conformal-map),
+  Copyright (c) 2015-2024 Gary Pui-Tung Choi, Apache License 2.0, see
+  [LICENSE-rectangular-conformal-map](https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/blob/main/LICENSE-rectangular-conformal-map).
+- `src/flatpoints/data/seed.npy` (shipped in the package): hyperuniform point cloud from the
+  [Hyperuniform samples database](https://github.com/For-a-few-DPPs-more/hyperuniform-samplers),
+  MIT licence.
+- example point clouds (`data/`, downloaded by `fp.load`, not shipped in the package):
+  third-party models, each under its own terms (some research / non-commercial only), see
+  [data/README.md](https://github.com/neighborhood-grid/flatpoints/blob/main/data/README.md).
+
+## Acknowledgement
+
+The concept of a surface stored as a square image comes from the geometry images:
+
+```bibtex
+@article{gu2002geometry,
+  title   = {Geometry Images},
+  author  = {Gu, Xianfeng and Gortler, Steven J. and Hoppe, Hugues},
+  journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)},
+  volume  = {21},
+  number  = {3},
+  pages   = {355--361},
+  year    = {2002},
+  doi     = {10.1145/566654.566589}
+}
+```
+
+The images rely on the rectangular conformal map of:
+
+```bibtex
+@article{meng2016tempo,
+  title   = {{TEMPO}: Feature-Endowed {T}eichm{\"u}ller Extremal Mappings of Point Clouds},
+  author  = {Meng, Ting Wei and Choi, Gary Pui-Tung and Lui, Lok Ming},
+  journal = {SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences},
+  volume  = {9},
+  number  = {4},
+  pages   = {1922--1962},
+  year    = {2016},
+  doi     = {10.1137/15M1049117}
+}
+```