README.md

VTK Tile Hierarchy

A custom vtk module that provides classes to load and visualize large out-of-core datasets arranged in a multi-resolution spatial data structure (e.g. potree datasets).

Installation

From source (Python)

git clone https://github.com/mortacious/vtk-tile-hierarchy.git
cd vtk-tile-hierarchy
python setup.py install

From source (C++)

git clone https://github.com/mortacious/vtk-tile-hierarchy.git
cd vtk-tile-hierarchy
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make && sudo make install

Acknowledgements

The rendering algorithm used in this package was originally developed by Markus Schütz as part of his thesis.