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It is not proper pointclouds, but it is the data used by Street view to highlight if you are looking at a wall, or at a street. It is also used for transitions
by pantelisk 6y ago
It is not proper pointclouds, but it is the data used by Street view to highlight if you are looking at a wall, or at a street. It is also used for transitions between one scene to another.
You can see it is very basic 90deg angle geometry, instead of actual pointclouds. Still pretty cool!
https://imgur.com/a/EgC0RbN https://imgur.com/a/EgC0RbN
- callumprentice 6y agoFWIW, that's just my own amateurish rendering of the points. The data itself that the Street View API provides is just an array of 3d points.
- pantelisk 6y agoOh yeah, I didn't mean to come off as judgemental or nitpicky. This is fantastic work! And this data can actually be pretty useful, let's say if somebody wanted to build a racing game based on street view, using the boundaries of the street for collisions etc. Too many fun possibilities!
- callumprentice 6y agoNot at - I knew what you meant :) Someone used it years ago to make a neat visualization where they rendered the Street View imagery as normal and then used the same 3D data to overlay foliage and create an apocalyptic environment. Seems to be gone now but there are some articles about it like this one: https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/03/epic-google-street-view-hack-turns-cities-apocalyptic-jungles/8654/ https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/03/epic-google-street-view...