DracoAnimatedPointClouds

Using Draco for Animated Point Cloud rendering.

Draco point clouds working in Unity with https://github.com/keijiro/Pcx over here: https://github.com/millerhooks/Pcx/tree/draco_support

Point Cloud File Formats

XYZ, XYZRGB, CGO, ASC, CATIA ASC, PLY (ASC), LAS, PTS

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLY_(file_format)

Animated Point Cloud File Formats

• BPC - Brekel Point Cloud
• GPD - DotSwarm Project
• Realflow BIN
  • http://support.nextlimit.com/display/rf2015docs/SPH+-+Binary+Loader
• BGEO (Houdini pre-v12)
  • http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/io/formats/geo
• PDB (Maya)
  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_Data_Bank_(file_format)#Example]
• PDC (Maya)
  • Particle Disk Cache for PDB
• PRT (Krakatoa)
  • http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/krak-prt-11-file-format/
• PTC (Renderman)
  • https://renderman.pixar.com/resources/RenderMan_20/ptcloudApi.html
• UnityCoder Point Cloud Binary
• PTS (Leica)
  • http://w3.leica-geosystems.com/kb/?guid=5532D590-114C-43CD-A55F-FE79E5937CB2

Existing Animated Point Cloud Tools

• http://dotswarm.nz/ [Abandoned]
  • http://www.luckybulldozer.com/
  • https://github.com/luckybulldozer
• http://brekel.com/brekel-pro-pointcloud-v2/
• https://github.com/unitycoder/UnityPointCloudViewer
  • https://github.com/unitycoder/UnityPointCloudViewer/wiki/Binary-File-Format-Structure
  • Regular .bin and Brekel .bin explained

File Format Inspection & Conversion Tools

• http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/ [OSX Hex Editor]
• https://hexed.it/ [Online Hex Editor]
• https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ [Windows Hex Editor]
• https://github.com/dmtsui/PTS-2-PLY-Converter
• http://pointclouds.org/
• https://codeyarns.com/2011/08/20/convert-between-ascii-and-binary-ply-file-formats/
• http://cs.nyu.edu/~yap/classes/visual/data/ply/ply/
• http://www.pointclouds.org/ [PCL - Point Cloud Library]
• https://hub.docker.com/r/innerspace/docker-pcl/ [PCL Docker]
• https://github.com/ddiakopoulos/tinyply
• http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/rply/
• https://github.com/ryanfb/pcl-tools
• https://github.com/NLeSC/PattyData [Cool Dockerized Point Cloud Tools for Via Appia 3D GIS]
• https://github.com/AndrewHazelden/PLYmesher [PLY Meshing Meshlab Scripts]

Point Cloud Capture

• https://github.com/StephenGuanqi/ARKitRecorder

Point Cloud Display

https://github.com/keijiro/Pcx

Source Files

• http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/ [The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository]

Discussion

• https://github.com/google/draco/issues/255