Part 3: What Is Scan Registration?
By this point in the series you now know what 3D laser scanning is and you also know that the result of a scan is something called a point cloud. But there’s one important detail we haven’t talked about yet. In the real world you almost never capture an entire site from just one position. […]
Part 2: What Is a Point Cloud?
If 3D laser scanning is the process of capturing reality, then the point cloud is what you get at the end of it. It’s the part most people don’t see or understand at first but it’s also the most important piece of the puzzle. Everything that comes after a laser scan (drawings, models, BIM, analysis) starts here. So, what is a point cloud? A point cloud is a […]