Project Owl was a small Grasshopper plugin that I developed during my master’s study. However, some might have already noticed that I stopped working on it for a while. I was really passionate about this project (I am generally very interested in reality capturing), but when I lost my most up-to-date WIP source code, I lost the passion as well. The situation wasn’t so great at that moment because I lost my MacBook at the same time. Yes, that’s how I’ve lost the source code, and it was all because I didn’t use the Github to back-up and share it with others.
Recently, I found out that some people actually visited my site to get the information about this tool. All the traffics were coming from the Grasshopper3D website (related post). So I thought why bury it deep in my computer when there are some other people who might need it? So I decided to upload the source code on the Github (https://github.com/hodgoong/grasshopper-kinect2) publically.
The code I’ve uploaded there is, as far as I remember, the very first working code which wasn’t optimized at all in terms of its performance. So I assume there will be many bugs (I beg not to blame my poor coding skill too much), but I believe smart people can figure things out and update the code. I hope I can work on this code soon again as well.
So I’ve tried Owl with Volvox, which has been developed as a part of DURAARK project at the Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) by Henrik Leander Evers and Mateusz Zwierzycki (http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/volvox), and found out it’s much convenient to navigate scanned point clouds in the Rhino with these two combination.
Basically Volvox can turn array of points into Rhino point cloud type, which is lighter compare to have a sets of points. Have a try!
Update: source code of Project Owl is now publically open. Follow the link below for the code as well as the binary GHA file!
https://github.com/hodgoong/grasshopper-kinect2
The contents has been relocated. Please visit below blog: https://hojoongchung.blogspot.com/2020/02/project-owl-kinect-v2-point-cloud.html
Project Owl: A Grasshopper point cloud generator for Microsoft Kinect V2 sensor has been updated.
Hojoong Chung 