#pointcloud

A considerable amount of the projects I work on now tend to be refurb in existing buildings. What I try to push is the use of point cloud surveying, and the associated benefits that come with it. The most obvious (nearly) immediate benefit is that we receive TruView data from the surveyor, meaning we have multipoint 3D photographs, with measuring facilities (pinch of salt there). 

Obviously, I’d love to post loads of photos of how intrusive this can be, especially when the project is 150 miles away, and I need to check one little detail, but with the security and privacy some of these projects command, a simple photo below is all I can really show:

#MannequinChallenge: International Space Station

I’ve finally managed to do one more of these 3D point clouds from video, which was a Mannequin Challenge from the end of last year from the ISS.

So I managed to turn this:

... into this:

Thankfully, Tumblr now supports @sketchfab embeds so you can now include interactive 3D models in posts!

Voxxlr

App for Project Tango smartphones such as the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro can create 3D point clouds of environments using its depth sensor camera, and upload the results to the cloud:

This is a screen capture of the Voxxlr Scanning App on the Lenovo Phab2 Pro capturing part of a house. Go to www.voxxlr.com to see this and other scans online.