Obarads / vscode-pc-viewer

This extension allows displaying the point cloud or meshes of a file in a VSCode window.

vscode-pc-viewer

About

This vscode extension with three.js [2] allows displaying a point cloud of a file. This extension supports the following formats:

• ply : Polygon File Format [3] (displaying meshes is available)
• pcd : Point Cloud Data [4]
• xyz : XYZ format
• obj : Wavefront obj format
• bin : binary file for KITTI dataset [1]

References

1. Geiger, A., P. Lenz, and R. Urtasun. 2012. “Are We Ready for Autonomous Driving? The KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite.” 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2012.6248074.
2. three.js. https://threejs.org/. Accessed: 2020-04-23.
3. PLY - Polygon File Format. http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ply/, Accessed: 2022/03/01.
4. The PCD (Point Cloud Data) file format. https://pcl.readthedocs.io/projects/tutorials/en/latest/pcd_file_format.html?highlight=PCD. Accessed: 2022/03/01.