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What is the advantage of having Global Shift be a per-object setting? Whenever, I've used this type of functionality it is to do what Dimitri describes in #1, georeference local data. In that case, I always want to apply the same global shift to all objects in a project so that their positions relat...

Recently someone was threatening to write a point based renderer for Blender: http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2014-June/043672.html I have no idea how far along, or likely to succeed, that attempt is and if Blender had proper support for particle data sets a separate render wouldn't...

Another option that might work is to simply cycle through colors from a predefined color map containing a relatively small number of colors. For example, one of the Color Brewer palettes designed for categorical data. The advantage of using one of these colormaps is that they are specifically design...

the interface [for writing custom shaders] might be a bit 'heavy'. Very true, after all, there are entire programming languages dedicated to doing this sort of thing [1]. How much complexity should be exposed to the user is definitely worth thinking about. Maybe you could have a few basic shaders t...

Excellent, I'm looking forward trying out these changes. It looks like you're making these changes in 'master'? Normals do seem to be a somewhat general performance problem, certainly other software I've used seem to suffer from similar issues. On the other hand, the information they can impart abou...

And we don't store the data on the graphic card's memory (as for a long time there was never enough memory to do so - this is not true anymore. I wonder how much of a performance impact this would have even on cards without enough VRAM. A few months ago I was testing a K5000 (4 GB) against a GTX 58...

I'm curious how much, if any, effort has gone in to optimizing viewport performance. Are you just using Qt's default OpenGL wrappers? Any thoughts on how much room for further optimization there is and where the effort would be needed to make that happen? Today I was separately testing CloudCompare'...

Leica has some info on their website:

http://www.leica-geosystems.com/kb/?gui ... 79E5937CB2

Thanks that's quite interesting. To do this we'll have to use different colors for points inside or outside the selection (instead of hiding them as it is done now). I always wondered how to do this when the cloud already has colors (using only red or yellow may hinder the user's perception). Any i...

I really think Photoshop et al., have the UI for this type of multistep selection down pretty well. The examples below were done with GIMP's rectangle select tool because the handles it leaves on the selection made it easier to visualize the process without recording a video. Selections using variou...