Volvox

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Description

Volvox enables you to create, edit and analyze Point Cloud data. You can download it from food4Rhino.

The plugin is developed in the frame of the DURAARK project: http://duraark.eu/

DURAARK (Durable Architectural Knowledge) is a collaborative project developing methods and tools for the semantic enrichment and long-term preservation of architectural knowledge and data. It focuses on establishing working practices and links between semantically rich BIM models and unstructured Point Cloud data. It Is funded through the European Commision's FP7 Programme and is running between 02/2013 - 01/2016. (Grant Agreement no: 600908)

This plugin is developed as a part of DURAARK project at the Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) by Henrik Leander Evers and Mateusz Zwierzycki.

Recommended downloads :

E57 Import for Rhino

CloudCompare

If you use the tool and want to refer to us please to so by citing the summarizing paper of ours:

Zwierzycki, Mateusz, Evers, Henrik Leander and Tamke, Martin (2016) Parametric Architectural Design with Point-clouds – Volvox. In Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 673-682

The paper is open access 

http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=ecaade2016_171&sort=DEFAULT&search=ecaade%20volvox&hits=2629

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by Mateusz Zwierzycki

Sep 14, 2015

If you have any suggestions for additional Volvox functions, please write them down here.

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    Pieter Segeren

    Hi Mateusz and Hendrik,
    great job you guys did on Volvox! 

    Just a quick message:  

    The ClippingPlane component in Volvox re-enables all 'clipped views' checkboxes (in clipping plane properties) on recalculation of GH solution, for all clipping planes.
    Would it be achievable to set the clipping planes properties (which views get clipped), and not destroy these settings on recalculation?
    End of message.

    kind regards,
    Pieter Segeren

    Sep 9, 2016

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      phillip

      Hi Mateusz,

      right now I am running some tests on Volvox. Is it possible to create the alpha shape from the cloud directly?

      Best,

      phillip

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      Nov 29, 2016

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        Dongwook Hwang

        Hi

        I have a question as to how to get a clean mesh out of cropped pt cloud.

        Pt cloud was from a scanned stone and imported in xyz file format. 

        It looked like probably I need more pts or some extra information.

        Wonder if there could be a way to create a clean mesh without going through the conversion of mesh to surface...

        Best,

        Feb 11, 2018