The craft of turning billions of points into structured knowledge. Filtering, segmentation, clustering, and feature extraction workflows, all with hands-on Python code.
By Dr. Florent Poux, PhD in 3D geospatial sciences | Author, 3D Data Science with Python (O’Reilly) | Published 28 February 2025 This tutorial dives deep into the Marching Cubes algorithm, a powerful technique for meshing 3D point clouds using Python. We transform a point cloud into a 3D mesh, experiment with various parameters, and […]
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By Dr. Florent Poux, PhD in 3D geospatial sciences | Author, 3D Data Science with Python (O’Reilly) | Published 29 November 2024 Python Tutorial for Euclidean Clustering of 3D Point Clouds with Graph Theory. Fundamental concepts and sequential workflow for unsupervised segmentation. As you are developing the next generation of AI systems, you face a […]
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By Dr. Florent Poux, PhD in 3D geospatial sciences | Author, 3D Data Science with Python (O’Reilly) | Published 4 November 2024 Designing a point cloud workflow is a powerful first-hand approach in 3D data projects. This article explores how processing massive point clouds efficiently isn’t about having more computing power. It’s about being more […]
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By Dr. Florent Poux, PhD in 3D geospatial sciences | Author, 3D Data Science with Python (O’Reilly) | Published 19 July 2024 RANSAC detects spheres and planes in noisy 3D point clouds by repeatedly fitting a candidate model to a random sample of points and keeping the fit that explains the largest number of inliers. […]
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By Dr. Florent Poux, PhD in 3D geospatial sciences | Author, 3D Data Science with Python (O’Reilly) | Published 10 June 2024 In this tutorial, I provide a detailed walkthrough on how to generate 3D Voxels from Point Clouds using Python. At the end, you will be able to automate the creation of 3D Voxel […]
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By Dr. Florent Poux, PhD in 3D geospatial sciences | Author, 3D Data Science with Python (O’Reilly) | Published 24 January 2024 This tutorial targets 3D Point Cloud Feature Extraction for developing an interactive Python Segmentation App. The goal is to develop an end-to-end system that can abstract complex point clouds with pertinent features. These […]
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By Dr. Florent Poux, PhD in 3D geospatial sciences | Author, 3D Data Science with Python (O’Reilly) | Published 19 January 2024 3D Modelling: Point Cloud to 3D Mesh In this 3D Tutorial, we learn how to create stunning 3D meshes from point clouds using Python and 3D Modelling techniques. We focus on how to […]
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By Dr. Florent Poux, PhD in 3D geospatial sciences | Author, 3D Data Science with Python (O’Reilly) | Published 5 March 2022 A Story of Point Clouds and Perception Foreword on the 3D conference This 9th International Workshop 3D-ARCH focused on “3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures”. It started in 2005 in Venice and […]
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By Dr. Florent Poux, PhD in 3D geospatial sciences | Author, 3D Data Science with Python (O’Reilly) | Published 14 May 2021 Learn 3D point cloud segmentation with Python A complete python tutorial to automate point cloud segmentation and 3D shape detection using multi-order RANSAC and unsupervised clustering (DBSCAN). If you have worked with point […]
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