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Gallery, Projects and General => Gallery => Topic started by: David Cambridge on May 02, 2018, 03:06:27 AM
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Hello All
This week, and after about 4 months of weekends, I finally got the first rendered images from my Lidar project. If you don’t know about Lidar, they can produce 3D scans and work a bit like radar but use beams of infra-red light instead of radio waves.
I’ve now got a few hundred hours of footage to edit down to make the build video, but for now here is a demonstration.
https://youtu.be/6_2B-I4BBPA (https://youtu.be/6_2B-I4BBPA)
David
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Here is a picture of the scanner
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Here is picture the scanner has built up. Take a look at the YouTube link above for a rendered video where I move through the captured 3D world.
David
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Very nice David, what level of precision are you getting in the point cloud ?
I wish this had been available years ago, modelling marine interiors for refit you had to be a contortionist surveyor, using a single laser measure, and it took hours. How fast are the scans ?
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Hi Joules
I’ve used the Garmin Light V3 module, and the data sheet claims update rates up to 650 Hz with the trade-off between accuracy and speed.
I’ve not done much experimentation with configuration parameters, but out of the box I think I was getting about 120 points per second with a flutter of around plus\minus 3 cm on a wall 2 m away. In terms of scan speed, it’s really whatever you want, with the compromise between resolution and capture time.
David
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Wow, I had no idea the sensors had got that cheap. I saw a demo years ago and the package was tens of thousands of pounds at that time. I will be watching this with interest.
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I’m still working on the build video, but this weekend I thought I’d take the Lidar outside and try it out in the garden. Here is a quick video of the results.
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All I can say is . . . . . AMAZING . . . :thumbup:
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All I can say is . . . . . AMAZING . . . :thumbup:
Agreed. That is pretty cool.