This is not a Ferrari, it’s a McLaren.įor more information on the programs at TU Wien click here. Click here to visit.īe careful when you step on the gas. UPDATE: I received a message from Riegl informing me that they have a Potree project website. Internet Explorer and Edge seem to have problems. They do not have to download any software. You will also need to set up a web server to host the indexed files, but then anyone can view the 3D point cloud using just their browser. This next line adds a sphere centred on the first point in the cloud with a radius of 0.2.
The current version, PotreeConvertor 1.6 can be downloaded here for free. Drawing shapes at points from a point cloud is very common, and various shapes are available. That is a program that I wish more people had the opportunity to get involved with as it looks like the Institute at TU Wien is a leader in visualization, rendering and modeling.Įxamples of the power of Potree can be seen in the examples at the website, or Matt O’Banion provide a link to a project he worked on with Mike Olsen in New Zealand after one of the devastating earthquakes.ĭata files must first be processed with a convertor. Potree was developed by Markus Schuetz for his Thesis in visual computing. Thanks to Matt O’Banion at West Point and Mike Olsen at OSU for the heads up on Potree – a free, open-source, WebGL based point cloud renderer for large point clouds, developed at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, TU Wien University in Vienna, Austria.
