You may of heard of Radiohead’s latest video House of Cards. Instead of using traditional cameras they used 3d plotters. In addition they released the raw data along with example code.
You can download the code from Google code. And there is a Radiohead YouTube group created especially for fan made videos.
I managed to get the examples running on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy Heron. The jikes included with the package did not work, instead install jikes via the Synaptic Package Manager. Then rename your jikes to jikes.old and create a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/bin/jikes jikes
Now you can run processing. To get the Radiohead data working follow the various README instructions.
And if you want to take it a step further, here is a list of links for everything I could find:
- Here’s a little Python script for converting Radiohead’s 3D laser data into an X3D file.
- This page features three different demos using different programs.
- Here is a C++ program to visualize the data.
- Partially Frozen has a very nice demo done with an application called Krakatoa.