# 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")
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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: [July 31, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/proposal-adding-a-vtkpointcloud-data-structure/3872/19 "2020-07-31T18:07:26Z")

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> This could work. Does it mean that you would not add a new vtkPointCloud class, but just use vtkPointSet objects for storing point cloud?

Yes, `vtkPointSet` would be the point cloud data structure.

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