Laser Splatting

Here you can download datasets and software used and developed in conjunction with the paper “From Point Samples to Surfaces - On Meshing and Alternatives” presented at the ISPRS Commission V Symposium “Image Engineering and Vision Metrology”, 25.-27. September 2006, Dresden (Germany)

Data

The interior of a 13th century Byzantine Basilica on the island of Crete, Greece.
panagia_kera_interior_PTX.zip	The point cloud with the matrix structure of the scans.
panagia_kera_interior_PTS.zip	The point cloud only (no ordering information).
panagia_kera_interior_SFL.zip	Laser splatting in surfel format for PointShop3D.
panagia_kera_interior_QS.zip	Laser splatting in qs format for QSplat.
A farm house near Sankt Johann, Germany.
Sankt_Johann_B2_PTX.zip	The point cloud with the matrix structure of the scans.
Sankt_Johann_B2_PTS.zip	The point cloud only (no ordering information).
Sankt_Johann_B2_SFL.zip	Laser splatting in surfel format for PointShop3D.
Sankt_Johann_B2_QS.zip	Laser splatting in qs format for QSplat.

Software

laser_splat_setup.exe	The self-contained installer for the laser splatting software, which reads the PTX format and writes either SFL or QS files. copyright © Jan Boehm 2006 Institute for Photogrammetry, Universitaet Stuttgart. The software is free for non-commercial use. It is a research tool in the development stage and no warranty is given.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)	The Package installs runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries on a computer that does not have Visual C++ 2005 installed.
http://graphics.ethz.ch/pointshop3d/	PointShop3D, rendering and editing software for point-based models, copyright (c) 2001 - 2006 Computer Graphics Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/software/qsplat/	QSplat rendering software by Szymon Rusinkiewicz copyright © 1999-2000 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University.