This paper describes a new stitch algorithm which connects plural partial measurements and combines them into a whole shape. Compared to the conventional stitch method, a significant benefit is that there is no need to determine the overlap region and no need to interpolate three-dimensional point data. These are essential conditions in order to apply the method to a free-form measurement machine whose measured data are sparse and three-dimensional points. The performance of the algorithm is checked by simulation.
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