Only a few people in the world get to create one famous piece of software. A guy called Linus Torvalds created two that are used every day by millions of people: Linux, and git. What is […]
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Das Cloud-Optimized Point Cloud (COPC) Format ist eine Erweiterung des populären LAZ Dateiformats für Punktwolken. Es fügt eine räumliche Unterverteilung und einen Index am Dateiende der LAZ Datei zu. Dadurch wird es möglich, gezielt einzelne Teile […]
I’ve long wanted to build my own point cloud viewer. While CloudCompare is my daily driver, I would also like something that I can extend and run algorithms in. I’ve previously taken a look at Unity, […]
Ich habe in der Vergangenheit schon über die Herausforderungen beim Kombinieren von Mobile Mapping Daten geschrieben, worunter das Finden geeigneter Geometrie und die richtige Gewichtung der überlappenden Fahrten. Ein anderes Problem entsteht wo Fahrten verzweigen oder […]
One peculiarity of Rust is its Result type. In many other programming languages, you’ll probably use a bool or int to indicate successful function execution. If you’re new to Rust and take a look at Rust code, you’ll […]
Despite a history with Linux that reaches back more than 25 years, Windows is my main desktop operating system – partly because having been in corporate environments where I was force to use it, partly because […]
All images sourced from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted. What is a workstation? Wikipedia’s definition starts with A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single […]
After first investigating Rust superficially some time ago, I’ve now started to really use it. As I’ve written before, my programming background is C/C++, Fortran, C#, and more recently Python. With that experience, some things about […]
So far, all my data processing pipelines required manual intervention or were tied together with batch/shell scripts. In most cases, I had to copy batch scripts to the folder where they had to process data, and […]