arxivcs.GRcs.CV2026-07-18
Points as Tori: Fast Pointwise Signed Distance for Point Clouds
Nicole Feng, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Keenan Crane
We describe a method for computing signed distance to point clouds that allows fast pointwise evaluation at arbitrary spatial resolution. As input, our method takes a point cloud with normals; as output, it provides an analytical parameterization that allows queries of signed dis…