Fast plane fitting to many points

Question

I\'m looking to fit a plane to a set of ~ 6-10k 3D points. I\'m looking to do this as fast as possible, and accuracy is not the highest concern (frankly the plane can be off

Answer 1

You may try the consolidator by John D'Errico. It aggregates the points within a given tolerance, this will allow to reduce the amount of data and increase the speed. You can also check John's gridfit function which is usually faster and more flexible than griddata