Chapter 3. Working with Point Clouds
IN THIS CHAPTER
What You’ll Learn in This Chapter
Welcome to the Third Dimension
Viewing the Point Cloud in Color
Making the Point Cloud Interactive
Up to this point, we’ve basically been treating the Kinect as a two-dimensional camera. Yes, we’ve looked at the depth data that the Kinect provides, but so far we’ve only used it to extract information from the image itself. We’ve treated the depth information almost as a kind of metadata about a two-dimensional image: we’ve processed it in order to draw conclusions about the image, such as locating its closest point, but that’s as far as we’ve ...
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