This episode looks at the "point clouds" for 3D data visuals used in architecture, archaeology, and autonomous driving. Plus, robots learn new moves. Point cloud data is captured with LiDAR.

The Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) is an airborne polarimetric Doppler radar operating at W-band (94.94 GHz). Up to 4 antennas are employable and can be configured to observe targets above and below the ...

Next, it conditions a 3D point cloud (1024 points) on the synthetic view. Finally, it produces a fine 3D point cloud (4096 points) conditioned on the low-resolution point cloud and the synthetic ...

Not all point clouds are destined to be 3D models. A project may call for watching for changes in a surface, for example. We’ve gone into detail in the past about how 3D scanning works ...

To simplify these processes, technological advancements have provided a solution: site surveys based on point clouds and 3D scanning, which have the potential to revolutionize the design process.

Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs uses 3D technology ... At this point, the light begins to diffract, spreading into the colors of the rainbow. This is the process of what forms cloud iridescence.

It will then run that generated image through a series of diffusion models to create the 3D, RGB point cloud of the initial image — first producing a coarse 1,024-point cloud model, then a finer ...