Caerbannog Point Clouds
The Caerbannog Point Clouds provide point-sampled 3D models occluded in clouds of points. We synthesized the 3D point clouds from polygonal models, point-sampling the models and surrounding them in a point cloud such that the shape of the model is occluded in any 2D projection. We obscure our model-of-interest by repeatedly surrounding it with an amorphous cloud of points, giving the overall point cloud a structure of organic nature, like that of shrubbery. In a user study, participants were significantly better at identifying the models when visualized as 3D scatterplots under rotation than in axis-aligned 2D scatterplots. We provide three point-clouds, both occluded and unoccluded: the Stanford bunny, Utah Teapot, and OSG Cow.
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| description | The Caerbannog Point Clouds provide point-sampled 3D models occluded in clouds of points. We synthesized the 3D point clouds from polygonal models, point-sampling the models and surrounding them in a point cloud such that the shape of the model is occluded in any 2D projection. We obscure our model-of-interest by repeatedly surrounding it with an amorphous cloud of points, giving the overall point cloud a structure of organic nature, like that of shrubbery. In a user study, participants were significantly better at identifying the models when visualized as 3D scatterplots under rotation than in axis-aligned 2D scatterplots. We provide three point-clouds, both occluded and unoccluded: the Stanford bunny, Utah Teapot, and OSG Cow. |
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"title": " Point-sampled Utah teapot, unoccluded.",
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"title": "Point-sampled Utah Teapot occluded in a point cloud",
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| identifier | https://data.openei.org/submissions/8214 |
| issued | 2020-12-01T18:37:35Z |
| keyword |
[
"data analysis",
"data visualizations",
"scatterplots",
"visual perception"
]
|
| landingPage | https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/153 |
| license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| modified | 2025-01-21T22:40:31Z |
| programCode |
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"019:023"
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| projectNumber | DE-AC36- 08GO28308 |
| projectTitle | Automated Data Synthesis for Immersive Visualization |
| publisher |
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"name": "National Renewable Energy Laboratory",
"@type": "org:Organization"
}
|
| title | Caerbannog Point Clouds |
