METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL TOPOGRAPHIES

摘要

The invention features a method of generating a three-dimensional topography of a property of an object, by generating a property value and a position value corresponding to a particular sample point (30), assigning each digital data point to one of a plurality of discrete compartments based on the position value of the data point (40), determining a quality value for each of the compartments and assigning to each compartment a code representing said quality value (50).