estimate_alpha — 3D reconstruct op

• Data kinds: points → measurement

• Call: import recon3d; recon3d.estimate_alpha(points) (or ops3d.get("estimate_alpha"))

Usage

Return a recommended alpha from the point set's scale (based on the median nearest-neighbour distance).

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• alpha_shape_topology — py -3.11 examples_3d/alpha_shape_topology.py

• sfm_recon — py -3.11 examples_3d/sfm_recon.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept measurement as input)

vol_gaussian_psf · fuse_to_voxel · fresnel_reflectance · snell_angle

Same category (reconstruct)

poisson_lite · alpha_shape_mesh · alpha_shape_boundary

*Provenance: recon3d.py — 3D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

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