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Dev tools · April 25, 2014

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Render a Street View scene as point cloud using the captured LiDAR data

http://callum.com/sandbox/webglex/streetcloud/ Managed to get the rendering working with help from other people generous enough open source and to write about their code.

Render a Street View scene as point cloud using the captured LiDAR data launched on April 25, 2014 with 9 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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