Multiple Point Clouds in Pix4D Cloud + Gaussian Splats?

PIX4Dcloud PIX4Dcloud Questions/Troubleshooting
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Hello,

I am looking at utilising Pix4D for visualising our point clouds datasets online (so our end users can view/interact), captured from both terrestrial and airborne sources (incl. LiDAR and SfM). I am therefore keen to understand if Pix4D Cloud can handle multiple point clouds for one project site and, if not, why not?

Ideally, I’d love to use Gaussian Splats features as well, however am I right in thinking that Pix4D only allows you to do this if you capture with Pix4D Catch? What about Pix4DMapper or similar? Is it possible to leverage Gaussian Splats when uploading to Pix4DCloud from pre-processed point clouds?

Many thanks in advance for your time and hope to hear from you soon,
Paul

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Hi @paul2

Right now, the Cloud can only handle one point cloud in the viewer at a time. That said, there is a way to combine both point clouds in PIX4Dsurvey (on desktop) for upload in the same Cloud project using the “Share to Cloud” functionality. That may be what you are looking for? The drawback is that they will be considered as a single point cloud, but at least everything is in the same viewer.

As for the Gaussian Splatting, we’re working on scaling this to larger scenes. Right now it’s early days and we started with PIX4Dcatch data, we expect this to work with larger scenes in the future too. Good to know that this is a point of interest for you.