PointClouds, import/export PCD file format

[dehann]

PCD Format

Format description here: https://pointclouds.org/documentation/tutorials/pcd_file_format.html, with reasoning and positioning wrt to older formats like stl, obj, ply, x3d, ...

• Use pcd v0.7+
• pcd format is commonly used for both export and import
• The standard set by PointCloudLibrary.
  • Same structure as work previously done on Caesar._PCL
  • Also found a BSD Python2 code we can leverage if necessary: https://github.com/dimatura/pypcd

PoTree

Can convert:

• https://github.com/potree/PotreeConverter/blob/6cd121bc92b279461dd4116283939ae0067f4aa1/resources/page_template/libs/three.js/loaders/PCDLoader.js

[dehann]

Also see LAS file support:

• _PCL support for save load LAS files #938