http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/pubs/Lipman_2010_BD/biharmonic_distance.m

says that

This is unoptimized code that demonstrates how the formalism of the paper
can be implemented. Will not run on large meshes.


But it works for 52565 vertices (SHREC10 null vs. topology classes) :)

62092 verts (SHREC16 kid16.off) works :) but 63802 verts (kid17.off) fails :(
265 base vertices; dont exceed this number o/w it may fail even with 50K!!!!!!!!!!

lowresolution\kid*.off all works (~10K vertices)
