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PointCloud rendering in browser webview and Panorama

PointCloud rendering in browser webview and Panorama

I would like to see PointClouds rendered in a browser webview and Panoramas.

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ramesh_sridharan
Autodesk

Hi John,

 

I really appreciate your feedback. I sure agree that this would make very good visualization. I am curious to know your use cases and problems this capability might solve for your projects. Would it be possible to share some uses this will directly impact/improve your point cloud workflows?

 

Thanks.

John_DeLeeuw
Advisor

Hi Ramesh, our customers start to use Mobile | UAV | Stationary Mapping Technology more and more to rapidly capture reality. This provides them with RGB PointClouds which can be easily loaded into AIW360 or other engineering software and that is very good!

 

The software also provides more and more technical possibilities to go from the PointCloud to DTM or Meshes. In the case of meshes, only structured scans (with Realviews) can be used now. In many cases there are no Realviews available because of hardware or software limitations, this is especcially the case with Mobile Mapping. Still, these customers need to present their projects and the new AIW360 (public) browser webviews and Panoramas are a great visualisation option but now lacking the important PointClouds Smiley Frustrated

 

Autodesk 3DS Max is the only application that will render PointClouds at the moment but this means a whole different workflow.

 

AIW360 models containing (large) PointClouds can already be stored in the Cloud as Cloudmodels. Autodesk's primary business motivator for rapid clouddevelopment is offering customers infinite computing power. Then I think it is only logical that you implement this infinite computing power also for rendering these large models including PointClouds and offer customers balanced financial billing through cloudcredits.

 

I think you already have much inplace to implement this new technical ability of rendering PointClouds in the cloud, especially since I read about the new aquisition by Autodesk of the 'Cloud-ready' Arnold rendering technology this morning Smiley Wink

ramesh_sridharan
Autodesk

Thanks John. I do agree that it will make a good visualization. I am just curious moving forward in future, would user still like to see the meshes made of point clouds (as pretty they are they can ugly real quick on urban, non-cleanedup point clouds) instead of some information content. All-in-all I agree that it would be wise to show the information content of point clouds over web for visualizattion and crowd sourcing. I sure will look into it.

ramesh_sridharan
Autodesk
Status changed to: Future Consideration
 
John_DeLeeuw
Advisor

Hi Ramesh, foremost I would like to see the PointClouds themselves be rendered in the webview including a couple of settings like pointsize & pointstyle. Meshes are already possible now to be rendered in the webview after generating them in ReCap mesh data service or other application like Pix4D. I agree that they need some serious cleanup options but Memento has already some tools for that.

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