TerraStereo - Sophisticated Visualization of Very Large Point Clouds
>> TerraStereo Release Notes
TerraStereo is a stand-along application for visualizing very large point clouds. It uses high-performance graphics boards for rendering huge amounts of points fastly and in high quality. The software enables you to:
- visualize up to 50 billion points that are organized in a TerraScan project
- perform visual analysis and quality check in both, small and large scale displays
- navigate through the point cloud freely or based on TerraScan trajectory files
- create animations
- view laser data in stereo mode and create stereo screencaptures
- easily change between different display channels and point rendering modes
- elevation, intensity and class coloring
- color by RGB values
- shaded surface display
- point density coloring
- TerraZ rendering method for masking foreground objects
- different quality levels for point rendering
- combine different visualization channels in order to improve the perceptibility of objects in the point cloud
- switch point classes on/off
- apply elevation exaggeration to the point cloud for specific analysis tasks
- measure distances within the point cloud
- digitize line vector elements and export them to TerraSurvey
Hardware requirements and recommendations
There are some specific hardware requirements and recommendations in order to run TerraStereo in a proper way:
- minimum of 4 real processor cores, more than 4 are recommended
- > 16 GB of RAM
- > 8 GB of GPU memory recommended
- display device that supports quad-buffered stereo display (for stereo viewing)
- stereo display or projector using DisplayPort or Dual-DVI connection (not HDMI)
- (optionally) active or passive stereo glasses
Display hardware recommendations
GPU board used with TerraStereo must be NVIDIA® CUDA™ Compute Capability 5.2 or higher. In two GPU systems the
primary (OpenGL) GPU can be older, if the other designated CUDA™ board meets the specs.
- Low-cost solution (low performance, mono display only):
one high-end GeForce® board + standard monitor
- Basic solution (good performance):
one high-end GeForce® board for CUDA™ and one basic-level Quadro® board for stereo display + NVIDIA® 3dVision compatible stereo system
- Recommended solution (best stereo quality and performance):
PluraView 4k StereoDisplay + TerraStereo workstation (http://www.3d-pluraview.com/en/)
Workstation GPU |
Cores |
Memory |
Quadro® P6000 |
3840 |
24 GB |
Quadro® P5000 |
2560 |
16 GB |
Laptop GPU |
Cores |
Memory |
Quadro® P5000 |
2048 |
16 GB |
Quadro® P4000 |
1792 |
8 GB |
Please contact Terrasolid for more information or for a quote.
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