Visualizing reconstructed tree models

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 Bézier 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.

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).

Animation created using Blender (http://www.blender.org).

Music:
"Vanes" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Textures:
"Bark 0007"
xoio (xoio.de)

"Cherry Leaf"
BrianHanson2nd (deviantart.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The animation builds upon but does not directly feature the "Prunus avium - Cherry Tree" 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
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/