The Point Processing Toolkit (pptk) is a Python package for visualizing and processing 2-d/3-d point clouds.
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can't install pptk in python
I'm trying to install the pptk module in PyCharm for visualising 3D point clouds.
Initially I tried installing in PyCharm via File > Settings > Python Interpreter > Install > pptk
However, it couldn't be found and advised I use pip instead.
So on my…

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No matching distribution found for pptk in anaconda
I am trying to install pptk in an anaconda environment by
pip install pptk
But everytime it returns the same error
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pptk (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for…

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I can not execute pptk.viewer() on google colab
I can not visualize point clouds with pptk on google colab. It stays running permanently and I have to stop it manually.
It does work with Jupyter, but I wanted to use it on colab.
What I'm doing is just this:
import numpy as np
import pptk
x =…

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How to embed a pptk viewer in a PyQt5 window
I am building a GUI program with PyQt5 (Qt Designer) which also uses the pptk library. This library can plot huge amount of points which is very interesting for my purpose (display finite element post processing results).
As it is explained in this…

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Every time I do a load function on a pointcloud, my point of view changes to the middle of the pointcloud
I'm relatively new to pptk, and im trying to load point clouds one after another, with a fixed point of view.
the main problem is that after I set the point of view, like so:
v = pptk.viewer(xyz)
xyz = pptk.rand(180000, 3)
v.set(lookat=(100, 100,…

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How to add some text in pptk viewer window?
I'd like to add some text in top of pptk viewer window. Is it possible?
I think it should be, but I didn't find anything from the documentation.
This works:
import pptk
v = pptk.viewer(pptk.rand(100, 3))
v.set(point_size=0.005)
But I'd like to have…

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PPTK, setting camera position
I try to setting camera position of pptk, with this method:
xyz = pptk.rand(100, 3)
v = pptk.viewer(xyz)
v.set(lookat=[0,0,0])
this working well, the camera position change.
But when I left-clik on it, to move the point cloud, the camera position…

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Unable to find functionality to add specific colour to PPTK pointcloud
I have a segmented point cloud, with labels corresponding to each set of coordinates. I would like to visualize the point cloud in pptk such that the points correspond to certain colours associated with their labels. I couldn't find any efficient…

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"!pip install pptk" worked fine for eight months, stopped working just now?
I have a piece of code running on Google Colab which requires the pptk package. I've originally created it back in April, using:
!pip install pptk
import pptk
to import the package, which has always worked fine. Up until yesterday, there were…

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Using two libraries with conflicting Python version requirements?
I have two Python libraries that I need to run within the same environment. They are pptk and torch-scatter and do not have an overlapping Python version requirement; pptk <= 3.7 and torch-scatter >= 3.8. They both make somewhat heavy use of C++ to…

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What is the best way to plot a set of live 3D points in python and what library is the best for the same?
Let us assume I generate 60 numpy 2d arrays of size (n,3) each second (500 < n < 5000) and I want to live plot each of these arrays, clear them from the plot and plot the next 2d array. I also want the plotting to be independent of mouse…

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Python pptk - screen capture is empty
I have a 3D point cloud that I visualize with the pptk package in python.
Viewing the point cloud is no problem but as soon as I call the capture method to take a screenshot no points are visible in the resulting image.
What it looks like in the…

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PPTK Python: Is it possible to visualise point cloud realtime?
I'm making photogrametry project and I'd like to make it works realtime. If pptk cannot do this, maybe You know library that enables such action.

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