Research & Innovation
Point Clouds Went From Lab Equipment to an Art Material
Point clouds — raw clouds of 3D measurement data — started as a surveying and engineering format. Over three decades they picked up a second life: laser-scanned sculpture, phone-based photogrammetry, Gaussian splatting, and now AI world models that generate a point cloud's worth of a place from a single photo. We trace that arc and round up where NewsNix has already covered it.