Photorealistic Point clouds

RE: Photorealistic Point clouds

Neil Ferguson — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:43:46 GMT

Hi Pascal,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I've got both Descartes and Pointtools installed on my PC so will give both these processes a try.

Cheers,

Neil

RE: Photorealistic Point clouds

Pascal Cloutier — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:23:48 GMT

Neil,

There are no tools in Pointools that allow coloring point clouds from photos or textured meshes. The tools you refer too are "painting" tools to edit or add color manually to a point cloud.

Descartes does contain a point cloud colorization tool. But, it only works for coloring point clouds from aerial images.

To get a colorized point cloud in your workflow, you should look at the point cloud export in ContextCapture. It can produce POD files that are colored. It just won't be able to alter your existing point cloud.

HTH,
Pascal

RE: Photorealistic Point clouds

Neil Ferguson — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:28:32 GMT

Thank you - I'll have a look through those links and report back

RE: Photorealistic Point clouds

fmcallis — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:26:15 GMT

Do you have Bentley Descartes for MicroStation?

Bentley Pointools V8i – Powerful and Intuitive Pre-Processing of Point Clouds

www.bentley.com/.../pointools.htm

Powerful and fast point-cloud visualization, editing and segmentation software

www.bentley.com/.../Bentley+Pointools

The Bentley Pointools Vision: Making Point Clouds a Fundamental Data Type

www.microstationconnections.com/feature_article.php;g=e487098b-98fb-102f-9773-003048671e9c

Bentley Pointools V8i Preview – Layers

www.youtube.com/watch