Visualizing reconstructed tree models

<p>Visualization on how a point cloud is created by a terrestrial laser scanner, and how a reconstructed quantitative structure model can be visualized in various ways. The visualization can be a cylinder model as shown in previous videos, but it can also be converted to a more continuous B&eacute;zier surface. The video also shows how the tree model can be augmented with non-intersecting leaves by sampling a certain distribution based on the branching structure. Both the branches and the leaves can be textured either for realism or something totally different.</p> <p>This animation was produced by the Inverse Problems research group in the Department of Mathematics at Tampere University of Technology (http://math.tut.fi/inversegroup).</p> <p>Animation created using Blender (http://www.blender.org).</p> <p>Music:<br> &quot;Vanes&quot; by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com)<br> Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0<br> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</p> <p>Textures:<br> &quot;Bark 0007&quot;<br> xoio (xoio.de)</p> <p>&quot;Cherry Leaf&quot;<br> BrianHanson2nd (deviantart.com)<br> Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0<br> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</p> <p>The animation builds upon but does not directly feature the &quot;Prunus avium - Cherry Tree&quot; point cloud data by Jan Hackenberg (http://www.simpletree.uni-freiburg.de/openData.html) shared under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license<br> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/</p>