pasture

A Rust library for working with point cloud data. It features:

• Fine-grained support for arbitrary point attributes, similar to PDAL, but with added type safety
• A very flexible memory model, natively supporting both Array-of-Structs (AoS) and Struct-of-Arrays (SoA) memory layouts
• Support for reading and writing various point cloud formats with the pasture-io crate
• A growing set of algorithms with the pasture-algorithms crate

To this end, pasture chooses flexibility over simplicity. If you are looking for something small and simple, for example to work with LAS files, try a crate like las. If you are planning to implement high-performance tools and services that will work with very large point cloud data, pasture is what you are looking for!

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
pasture-core = "0.1.0"
# You probably also want I/O support
pasture-io = "0.1.0"

Development

pasture is in the early stages of development and is not yet stable.

License

pasture is distributed under the terms of the Apacke License (Version 2.0). See LICENSE for details.