[ArcheOS] CloudCompare - 3D point cloud and mesh processing software

[luca]

Hi Ricardo,
thanks for the report. Alessandro is testing very much in this days for 
a work related with 3D SfM and IBM reconstruction of a castle. Up to now 
it looks like that CloudCompair is necessary to georeference 3D 
pointclous (in combination with some free tools - developed by Marcus 
Metz and Bernard Fischer - that we hope will be soon released). IMHO 
this is enough to insert CloudCompare in ArcheOS (by now with MeshLab it 
is possible just to "georeference" a mesh in local systems and not a 
pointcloud). We can open an issue about it in Github 
(https://github.com/archeos/ArcheOS/issues?state=open).
Ciao.

On 20/05/12 05:38, Ricardo Gaidão wrote:
>
> CloudCompare is licensed under under LGPL and GPL terms and according to the official site:
>
> "CloudCompare is a 3D point cloud (and triangular mesh) processing
>    software.
> It has been originally designed to perform comparison
> between two 3D points clouds
> (such as the ones obtained with a laser
> scanner) or between a point cloud and a
> triangular mesh. It relies on a specific
> octree structure that enables great performances
>
> in this particular function. It was also meant to deal with huge point clouds
> (typically more than 10 millions points, and up to 120 millions with 2 Gb of
> memory)."
>
> http://www.danielgm.net/cc/
>
>
> The last version includes features like:
>
> ->  Point cloud capture with a Microsfot Kinect device (qKinnect - based on libfreenect).
>
> ->  3D surface reconstruction with 'Poisson Surface Reconstruction ' algorithm by Kazhdan et al. 
>
> ->  Real time OpenGL shading filters SSAO&  EyeDome Lighting available as plugins.
>
>
> It also can import Bundler files and generate orthophotos from them, and has been
>
> successfully used in aerial archeology studies.
>
> check:
>
> http://www.danielgm.net/cc/doc/wiki/index.php5?title=AirPhotoSE
>
> and
>
> http://www.uni-koeln.de/~al001/airphotose_files/hs1500.htm
>
> Meshlab offers a larger number of processing tools, but CloudCompare maybe
>
> worth to be checked, to find out if eventually brings some features, not present in
> Meshlab, or eventually better performances in some tools also present in the last.
>
>
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