Lidar Point Cloud Rendering

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Saw an article on Reuters about LIDAR and wanted to see what the state of the tech actually was.

Found out they've actually got some really neat looking rendering technologies. This example being a cartoonized, cell-shaded equivalent of LIDAR point cloud scan. There's a bunch of other examples, just did not want to make an ad for a certain company. The examples of cars driving around with waves of LIDAR are actually rather beautiful.

Interesting indeed, probably will only works where you can have powerful computation on-board, not much on drones due to total gross weight limitations.

The drone situation might be plausible. There's another product in a different area that says it's 1.63 kg and 120 mm diam x 120 mm height. Takes maybe 10 W to run. A decent full computer (not a custom chip) weighs ~3.5 kg at 10-15 W use.

4.7" x 4.7" seems reasonable for some drones. Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle the smallest class of drone is: < 20 lb (9.1 kg)

It would also fit into the Micro air vehicles (MAV) and larger categories. Micro starts at: >= 250 gm & < 2 Kg. Large is considered 150 kg.

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