Entwine
5.5#15 in point cloud softwareLinux
Visit| Fact | Entwine | Point Cloud Library |
|---|---|---|
| License | Entwine is available under the LGPL License. | PCL is open source under the 3-clause BSD license and is free for commercial and research use. |
| Purpose | Entwine is a data organization library for massive point clouds, intended for datasets from desktop scale to trillions of points. | PCL is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing. |
| Security | The configuration supports enabling AWS server-side encryption for S3 writes. | The repository README warns that a copy of the old website was hacked and may still host malicious code. |
| Support | The community page directs users to GitHub for issues and to Gitter and the PDAL mailing list for discussion and questions. | The project directs general usage questions to Stack Overflow and its Discord server for community chat. |
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Entwine is suited to teams organizing point cloud datasets, including large collections, and working with PDAL-readable formats or local and supported remote storage. Its documented tools and integrations may also suit workflows using Potree, Plasio, or Cesium.
PCL suits developers and researchers working with 2D or 3D image and point-cloud processing. Its modular libraries and separate compilation may also help deployments with computing or storage constraints.