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Hello,
what happens if I use a mesh as model for ICP registration.
1) Is it subsampled to a point cloud, if yes with which density
or
2) are the point-mesh distances (distance to the closest plane) used instead of point to point distances?
or
3) something else.

Thank you. Sebastian

Interesting question that makes me realize that this dusty part of the code should be updated ;)

The mesh is sampled with a constant number of points! (100 000 points). It would be better to use the cloud-to-mesh distance...

Good news: that's fixed!

From now on, CC will compute proper cloud/mesh distances when the reference/model entity is a mesh.

I've updated the online beta version.