Get objects in a boundary, is it possible?

Rhino Developer
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Hi guys. I have a pointcloud with thousands points. Now I want to get some points in a regoin such as a boundary object. I do not want to do it by hand, because I have to do it thousand times. Is there any method I can use in rhinocommon or rhino.net ? I have check the objectTable object, it has a boundary property for all objects. I wonder If it is possible to get object by specify a certain boundary object, then we can get all objects in the boundary.
Any response is appricated.

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Would Brep.IsPointInside or grasshopper PointsInBrep do what you want?

RhinoCommon method
http://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoCommon/html/M_Rhino_Geometry_Brep_IsPointInside.htm

Or using GrassHopper:
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// Rolf

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Thanks RIL. I checked that method. But the problem is if the number of the points more than 100000, grasshopper maybe crash. And the method takes too long time to finish my job.

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If you want to check for inclusion in a simple Box or Sphere you can make a very fast inclusion test yourself with a simple script:

    // Sphere: Inputs: Points (InputPoints) and a sphere center C and a radius R
    var boolfilter  = new bool[InputPoints.Count]
    for (var i=0; i<InputPoints.Count; i++)
    {
         boolfilter[i] = C.DistanceTo(InputPoints[i]) <= R; // true or false
    }
    A = boolfilter; // Output. Use Dispatch to extract true-points (true = inside sphere)

A box aligned with World axes is also simple to code. If you use array (bool[]) or Point3d[] directly) for the results you can use Parallel.For, but it will probably be fast enough even without threading.

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Thanks RIL. Actually what you show is ok for most of the cases. But you did not get what I really care. There are too many points, so I do not wanna loop all the points. I just want to find a fast way to get the point I care about. In a small scope. Maybe less then 1000 or less. Then I can save a lot of time. If each step I have to loop all millions of points. My computer can not bear. And it crashed several times.

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When you have more than ten million points then (perhaps) you will have “too many”. Point inclusion for a simple Sphere or a World aligned Box will take only a few ms (2-5 ms) if you make your own script.

if you still would have any problems with performance with the script approach you can use RTree to make a first “extraction” out of the cloud and so reduce the number of points to test (for a Box) and cut the time even more, but I’d guess that you would reduce the execution time only for a sphere in that case. if even that.

Less than 5 ms is “no time”. 100,000 points is a problem only for the std Brep.IsPointInside, probably because it has to test for any shape of the Brep.

// Rolf