Reverse Unroll Feature?

[LeWinter]

First, thank you for the wonderful software. I have been utilizing the Unroll tool for volume comparisons of a changing cylindrical feature, creating a meshed point cloud object of my volumetric results. Is there a way to apply an Unroll reversal on my results, restoring the original geometry of my data? I have attached an image of the original point cloud, the unrolled point cloud, and the resulting volume change object overlaid on the unrolled point cloud (red object).

[daniel]

That's a good idea!

I'll add this to the TODO list right away.

The only issue will be with the triangles on the borders (it will be hard to re-connect them!).But if the cloud is dense, this artifact will be almost not noticeable.

[RyeK]

Hi Daniel,

Has the reversal of the unroll tool been implemented? Similar to LeWinter, I am interested in unrolling a cylindrical shaped cloud to perform calculations/functions on the flattened cloud and eventually return it to its original shape.

Thanks.

[daniel]

No sadly, we didn't get the time (as for most of the items in the TODO list... we miss active support from developers!)