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Hi Daniel,

is there a function in CloudCompare or is it possible to create one with the goal of adding a scalar for each point within a cloud that represents the minimum distance calculated from that point to the nearest point (excluding for each point the calculation with respect to itself) within the same cloud ?
Do you have any suggestions or guidance on this ?
This calculation should locally represent a kind of density of the point cloud ......

Thank you,
Mariolino

Tools - > other -> compute geometric features (density number of neighbours)

It won't give distence of closest point, instead it gives a number of points inside a given radius.

thanks for the response, that command I know but without the generation of the scalars representing the distance to the nearest point is not very useful to me......

If you want the distance to the closest point then you could use the 'Approximate density' in the older versions of CC (see https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php/Density)

Daniel many thanks for all,
for the advice I tried in the previous version the command you suggested unfortunately was not what I was hoping for ...
but with a few lines of code with the Python plugin by Thomas Montaigu + SciPy I was able to generate the scalar which is particularly useful for identifying outlier points.