Evenly distributing point order in a cloud

[occular]

Does CloudCompare have a feature that will do fair point redistributing? By which I mean, given a point cloud, it will reorder the points so that consecutive points will be in different voxels/octree addresses, as much as is possible?

This would allow me to draw the first M points (whether it's 500 points or 10000) of a cloud and always have good representation of the model.

[daniel]

Not sure if it's what you are looking for, but there's a 'subsampling' tool (however it doesn't move the points, it only creates a more evenly sampled subset):
http://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/in ... CSubsample

[occular]

Hi Daniel, thanks for writing back.

I did notice the subsample tool but it appears to work on principle of thinning out the cloud (keeps one point per given radius, for example) rather than reordering all the points in the way I was looking for.

Cheers!