Pointscene.com: Explore Real World 3D Scenes from Lidar Data

Post by davijo » Fri, May 27, 2016, 7:31 AM UTC

nightski wrote: post #8

dmlorenzetti wrote: post #7

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, but I really dislike this style of website that requires you to poke around for ages trying to figure out what it's about, or what value it would bring me to use it. Examples: + The title of this HN post promises it uses Lidar data, but one of the three examples I looked at had nothing to do with Lidar, and the other two didn't mention Lidar at all. + That first example shows a drone-…

I have no affiliation with Pointscene but to me it was rather simple. You can upload your 3D point cloud data and share it with others to view. I figured this out within a few seconds of looking at the site. Lidar comes in because that is a common method to capture this data. With a higher level account you can measure, download, and have private data. I'm not sure how useful that would be, but that's the value propo…