Unwraping truncated cone shape structure

[Ingsayyad]

I want to unwrape a pillar which has cone shape. How can I do it. For cylinder I knoww CC works well.
Lower radius=1.8506 m (red in pic)
Upper radius=1.6849 m (green in pic)
Please see attached figure.

[daniel]

Well you "just" have to do some math in order to deduce the cone apex position and angle. I guess Thales is you friend here (you just need the height between the red and green circles ;).

Then the "Unroll" tool has a "Cone" mode.

EDIT: anyway, the green and red circles don't look very well "centered". Not sure what you'll get. Maybe unrolling this column as a "cylinder" would not be so bad.

[Ingsayyad]

deduce the cone apex position and angle

Can you plaese give link.

The coordinates of my pillar

Bottom circle : xyz: 22.2154,59.3347, 0
Top circle : xyz: 22.2170,59.3813,24

EDIT: anyway, the green and red circles don't look very well "centered"

Yes, The pillar is not straight.

Maybe unrolling this column as a "cylinder" would not be so bad.

It would be too much approximation. Don't you think so. I need to do for mm accuracy.

Please help me to find solution.

[daniel]

I was thinking about Thales' Intercept thorem ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercept_theorem

And for the cylinder VS cone unrolling accuracy, it all depends what you want to do with the result...

[Ingsayyad]

Dear,
I'm trying to use
unroll->cone but still not working.

my parameters are:

center:
Bottom circle : xyz: 0,0,0
Top circle : xyz: 0,0,24.6

radius:
Bottom circle : x,y,z: 1.84 m
Top circle : x,y,z: 1.68 m

Cone apex: 0,0,275 (I just calculated)
angle:0.38
projection radius=1.84 ( WHAT should I give)
I 'm getting unroll with lower and upper edge of same length.

If required, I can send you pointcoud also.

[daniel]

Oh maybe that was not clear but this is exactly what the 'unroll' function does (even for a cone). It unwrap the surface as a 'rectangle' .

This is not a 'conical' projection.

[Ingsayyad]

Should it not be like this

[daniel]

Yes it could be. But this is not what this tool is doing right now.

Maybe we could add this as an option: can you send me your cloud and the parameters so that I can update the code? (cloudcompare [at] danielgm.net)

[Ingsayyad]

surely, I will send it to you today.

Can you do me a favour to do math. I will write matlab code for my today's task.

I can calculate cylinder coordinates.
r=sqrt(x^2+y^2).............So I don't need to fix projection radius.I hope it works
theta=atan(y,x)
z=z
Now problem is what are coordinates of my projection plane.
x=?
y=? y will be fixed? it is xz-plane
z=?

[daniel]

You can look at this paper:
http://www.mamikon.com/USArticles/Rolli ... inders.pdf (page 402)

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1) You have first to project each point on the theoretical cone (either orthogonal to the surface or radially)
2) Then you can apply the 'unroll' equation. Let A be the cone apex, alpha the opening angle and P(x,y,z) be the projected point. lets assume also that the cone axis is Z (I'll use the figure notations):

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s = norm(P-A)
rho = sqrt(x^2 + y^2)
phi = atan2(y,x)
theta = phi * sin(alpha)

Eventually you'll have to apply a kind of Lambert conical projection (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_co ... projection). But is should be simpler (I think theta is the longitude and the latitude is constant in your case. And you already know rho also. I don't have the time to look at the details right now ;)