Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing

Posted by sytelus on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:29AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/marian42/pointcloudprinter

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by thomasfl on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:31PM (#18330528)

This reminds me of TerraFab (http://terrafab.bengler.no/). A Norwegian site where users can zoom in on norwegian fjords, and press the order 3d print button.

Edit: Someone has put up the Terrainator site (https://terrainator.com/) that generates 3D print files from Google maps. It costs money and you have to 3d print the thing yourself.

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by module0000 on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:57PM (#18331355)

Does Slartibartfast know about this!? He was quite proud of those fjords..

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by DeRock on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:36PM (#18331154)

There’s a free version (with more options) at http://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/

Haven’t printed anything yet, but the STL loads great into a slicer (I used cura) of your choice.

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by donpdonp on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:05PM (#18329647)

fantastic! anyone have sources for USA lidar point clouds?

In related projects, this script takes a GeoTIFF (which usually comes from a lidar pass) Digital Elevation Model, and renders it inside minetest (opensource voxel game). https://github.com/Gael-de-Sailly/geo-mapgen#readme

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by MonkeyDan on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:57PM (#18330197)

The National Map! https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/

Kinda hard to use, though. You can find the raw data by state here: ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/NED/LPC/projects/

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by crosby on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @03:14PM (#18340337)

OpenTopography: https://opentopography.org/data

1.1 trillion points online and growing.

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by JorgeGT on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:28PM (#18329893)

This looks very nice! I've been toying with open LIDAR data from my country (0.5-1 points per m^2) in MeshLab but always got very noisy/spiky meshes.

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by namibj on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:16PM (#18331571)

There are a few solutions much better than the old tech used by meshlab. Specifically, fssr[0], which does a more advanced and especially sample-density-compensating variant of meshlab's poisson reconstruction, as well as instant meshes[1], which does generic retopo, and is able to handle point clouds, while still being _very_ fast and delivers surprisingly good low-poly results (see for yourself).

[0]: https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/fssr/index.en.jsp [1]: https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by anotheryou on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:33PM (#18329329)

I want a photo of a print :)

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by polskibus on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:00PM (#18331386)

what's the cheapest way to get a lidar-scanning drone up and running?

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by JoeAltmaier on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:02PM (#18331424)

I think LIDAR equipment is still the size of a dishwasher

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Re:Aerial LIDAR scans to 3D printing by newaccoutnas on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:26PM (#18331672)

Not at all, there are many very small and even solid state LIDAR scanners on the market at an accessible cost

edit: Here's a review of 12 https://www.dronezon.com/learn-about-drones-quadcopters/best...

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