Pointools POD Writer Parameters
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Sets the maximum error as the distance from the original point tolerated by the compression algorithm.
Setting a higher value results in an output file that is more compressed. Note that this value should represent the worst cases; most data should be considerably closer to the original data.
It is important to use a sensible value; selecting too small a value results in excessive indexing times and poor performance.