# Proposal: adding a \`vtkPointCloud\` data structure

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/proposal-adding-a-vtkpointcloud-data-structure/3872
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** proposal
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/proposal-adding-a-vtkpointcloud-data-structure/3872 "2020-07-29T19:26:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![will.schroeder](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/will.schroeder/32/233_2.png) [@will.schroeder](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/will.schroeder)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/proposal-adding-a-vtkpointcloud-data-structure/3872/21 "2020-07-31T21:33:58Z")

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Sounds eminently reasonable

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### Author: ![bistek](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/bistek/32/2344_2.png) [@bistek](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/bistek)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/proposal-adding-a-vtkpointcloud-data-structure/3872/22 "2022-01-21T14:40:25Z")

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Hello, just a quick question: are you planning to implement this class in the end?

Thanks very much!

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### Author: ![Yohann\_Bearzi](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/yohann_bearzi/32/671_2.png) [@Yohann\_Bearzi](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Yohann_Bearzi)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/proposal-adding-a-vtkpointcloud-data-structure/3872/23 "2022-01-21T14:42:18Z")

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`vtkPointSet` is not an abstract class anymore. You can now instantiate `vtkNew<vtkPointSet>`.

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