live 3d point cloud viewer

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binarymillenium

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Nov 13, 2010, 2:31:48 AM11/13/10
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Has anyone written a point cloud viewer into glview.c yet?  I made an attempt but my opengl is a little rusty- I have a good determination of the center of the point cloud but my code for orbiting around that center is screwy.

Thanks,

-Lucas

glview.c

SK

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Nov 13, 2010, 11:22:35 AM11/13/10
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There is a ROS (Robot Operating System) driver using libfreenect
available now, which enables looking at the 3D point cloud using the
RVIZ visualization tool:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect_node
(Scroll down to see a video).
>  glview.c
> 17KViewDownload

Zsolt Ero

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Nov 13, 2010, 11:32:43 AM11/13/10
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Great video! 

Can you give some additional information about that what is this ROS and how could we use the RVIZ program under common linux? Is it possible to port RVIZ to win32?

Zsolt Ero

Theodore Watson

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Nov 13, 2010, 11:42:56 AM11/13/10
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Kyle who made this from my first os x capture - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kylemcdonald/5167174610/
posted the cloud viewer as a live view for glview.c

you can grab it here:

binarymillenium

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Nov 13, 2010, 11:48:39 AM11/13/10
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Both of those solutions are great, thanks!

-Lucas

SK

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Nov 13, 2010, 1:50:28 PM11/13/10
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To paraphrase ros.org:

"ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It
provides the services you would expect from an operating system,
including hardware abstraction, low-level device control,
implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between
processes, and package management." (http://www.ros.org/wiki/)

ROS is gaining a lot of traction in the robotics community right now
and will hopefully will help to cut down the amount of reinventing the
wheel going on in the robotics research community. There's a lot of
stuff available for ROS, including a Point Cloud Library (PCL) stack
currently mostly used for manipulation of tabletop objects.

On Nov 13, 5:32 pm, Zsolt Ero <zsolt....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Great video!
>
> Can you give some additional information about that what is this ROS and how
> could we use the RVIZ program under common linux? Is it possible to port
> RVIZ to win32?
>
> Zsolt Ero
>

SK

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Nov 13, 2010, 2:06:47 PM11/13/10
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>Is it possible to port RVIZ to win32?
Some people are working on porting ROS (or at least parts) to Windows,
but that will likely take some time (at least months). It currently is
best supported on Ubuntu (there are even packages available), but it
can be compiled on other Linux systems too.


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> Zsolt Ero

Theodore Watson

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Nov 13, 2010, 4:15:36 PM11/13/10
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nice vide of it posted here:
http://vimeo.com/16788233
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