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PolyWorks | Nikon Digital Cameras | Optech ILRIS 3D Laser Profiler | Konica Minolta Vivid 9i | Raytheon 250 Thermal Imager | Trimble 5600/5700/5800 Total Station with
GPS | TerraVerde's TerraHawk Airborne Multispectral Imaging Platform | Genie TZ-50 Towable Lift Boom
Massive 3D
point clouds, collected by laser
scanners, are processed by the Polyworks software package. Processing
the enormous data sets collected by 3D scanners is a challenge. The
PolyWorks suite from Innovmetric has been successful in a variety
of visualization, surveying, architecture, engineering, and manufacturing
applications.
The PolyWorks
suite supports the following functionality:
Multiple scan alignment
Polygonal model creation
Polygonal model editing
Feature and measurement
extraction
Visualization and video
output
In heritage
preservation, the use of high-density 3D scanning surveys is a relatively
new approach . Professionals from the cultural, artistic, and archeological
fields can profit from PolyWorks' tools which include:
Creating polygonal models
for heritage visualization, education, professional research
Modeling for reconstruction
Monitoring structural
change over time
Exporting features to
external software suites
Extracting measurements
directly on point clouds
Examples of heritage visualization and other applications can be found at the Visualizing Rock Art Sites in Northwest Arkansas
and at
CAST's InVirMet site: http://www.cast.uark.edu/invirmet/index.html
