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As pitpet noticed, ScanShadowsFilter works by computing the angle differences between successive readings and discarding those that don't fit within a user-specified range. I suspect the incorrectly erased readings fell below the minimum angle difference min_angle – you can try reducing it to 0 and checking what happens.

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