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Hello,

I would like to get a SINGLE value for the maximum distance between two point clouds that I want to compare using CC on the command line. In the following link,

http://www.danielgm.net/cc/doc/wiki/ind ... #Example_1

I found an example like:
The problem is that it generates a complete cloud with the scalar value of each point being its distance to the reference cloud. What I really want is to only get the MAX value of all these scalar values. So you understand my business case, here is why...

I have very complicated C++ point cloud algorithms that I need to refactor and optimize. I have a bunch of point clouds that are the results of my original code and I want to be sure that my refactoring still gives the same results within a given tolerance (very small). I want to be able to run the new code and compare its output with the old point clouds automatically because I have over 80 such comparisons to make. That's why I need to be able to do it by scripting and get a simple PASS/FAIL answer for each comparison based on my tolerance.

Regards,

Bruno Martin

Well, that could be done, but the command line mode will output a lot of text anyway.

We could maybe output somewhere in the console something like 'MAX DISTANCE = XXX'. But then you'll have to extract this information from the output. Would it work for you?