[pdal] [EXTERNAL] Re: Alembic export/integration with Entwine

[Jed Frechette]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 6:10 AM Newcomb, Doug <doug_newcomb at fws.gov> wrote:
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> A gui for PDAL is not a bad idea.

I saw a post on Kitware's blog earlier this spring that the upcoming
release of Paraview would include PDAL readers and that they're hoping
to support constructing processing pipelines in the future, which
would be pretty cool.

That being said, conceptually Paraview is still essentially a linear
series of filters applied to a source data set. My ideal GUI for PDAL
would look a look a lot more like Houdini, namely a visual programming
environment for defining non-linear data execution graphs.

If you've got a couple hours to kill checkout the launch presentation
for the most recent version.

https://vimeo.com/322225534

The big new feature in that release was Procedural Dependency Graphs,
which is the first thing we're using with PDAL. The ability to easily
setup a graph that will create and execute PDAL pipelines using all
possible combinations of X filters with Y parameters each is a great
way to answer questions like "What are the best settings to use to
extract ground from my data set?" Just test them all and look at the
results.

Best,

-- 
Jed Frechette