By Stephen Schieberl and Joshua Noble We've heard it plenty of times when people are talking about working with the Kinect: "we'll just get the point cloud and turn it a mesh". You may have even thought that yourself at some point, "this is going to be easy" Well, it's actually fairly difficult to do and especially difficult to do quickly, because a mesh is a complex object to create and update in
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