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Runtime increases when a subset of the point cloud are co-planar points #146

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@Sheradil

Hello,

a while ago I used Open3D for a problem I had.
And I experienced a sharp increase in runtime at a specific point.
I found the "reason" for this behaviour and opened an issue on their github.
One of the contributors did some research and realized that it is a problem within the qhull library that Open3D uses.
Here is the link to the detailed description:
isl-org/Open3D#6482

I will write a short description:
When trying to compute the convex hull of a point cloud the runtime is fast as expected.
However when a (large enough) set of co-planar points is added to the point cloud, the runtime suddenly increases by a factor of ~50.
Within the Open3D issue I added source code to reproduce the error. But Open3D is required.

Maybe you can locate the error based on this issue without the need for further code.
Or maybe it's a side case that is not worth to fix (or I did something unintended).

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