"Tom Austin" <taustin> wrote in message news:4475ff6a$1@news.povray.org...

> It's a time of flight laser that can gather about 20,000 data points a 
> second.  It scans in a spherical grid (2 angles & a range).  The scanning 
> window is about 80 degrees vertical and 340 horizontal.
> Each of the scans in this animation is over 2 million data points - each 
> raw scan file is over 17Mb.  A scan takes about 6 minutes to complete at 
> this resolution.  The data is good to about 1/2 inch.


Neat.  What type of laser is it?


> We do not know anything about the positions of the scans in relation to 
> each other except a hand sketch for rough positioning.  We have some 
> software that neatly aligns the data automatically.  All we need to do is 
> give it a very rough starting point.
>
> Using survey points, we were able to align the data in a real coordinate 
> system.


Wow, that's pretty slick.  How long does it take to parse and render a 
single frame?

- How

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