Cloudy with a chance of polygons

[mikeb]

So a friend of mine makes 3d scans of buildings inside and out. The clip below is a point cloud render (so no polygons at all).

The reason why it appears to have density is that there are over 670 million points in the cloud!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2lBlMPrYw&sns=em

My question is, can these point clouds be rasterised into polygons?

[visualtricks]

Wow.. that's a huge work ! I don't think there are any chances to get polygons out of point cloud inside cinema (at least, not a solid mesh to work with, and surely not easily), probably there are more specific softwares for that job. You can give this program a try: http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
Would love to see what you can get.

[occultcg]

Hm, interesting.