README.md

PyPotree (potree for jupyter notebooks and colab)

Allows to insert potree cells into jupyter and colab notebooks

Gabriele Facciolo, CMLA 2019

Installation and dependencies

The main source code repository for this project is https://github.com/cmla/pypotree It is written in Python and contains Potree and PotreeConverter. It was tested with Python 3.5 and 3.6.

pypotree requires C and C++ developement tools.

pypotree can be installed with pip:

pip install pypotree

Usage

In Colab:

 import pypotree 
 import numpy as np
 xyz = np.random.random((100000,3))
 cloudpath = pypotree.generate_cloud_for_display(xyz)
 pypotree.display_cloud_colab(cloudpath)

In a Jupyter notebook:

 import pypotree 
 import numpy as np
 xyz = np.random.random((100000,3))
 cloudpath = pypotree.generate_cloud_for_display(xyz)
 pypotree.display_cloud(cloudpath)