ThreeCrate Visualization

Real-time 3D visualization and interactive viewing for point clouds and meshes.

Features

• show_point_cloud() and show_mesh() convenience functions for quick display
• InteractiveViewer for full control over the viewing session
• GPU-accelerated rendering via wgpu
• Triangle mesh rendering with lighting
• Spherical coordinate camera with orbit, pan, and zoom modes
• Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux) via winit and wgpu

Camera Controls

• Mouse Drag: Orbit around the scene
• Mouse Scroll: Zoom in/out
• O: Switch to orbit mode
• P: Switch to pan mode
• Z: Switch to zoom mode
• R: Reset camera position

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
threecrate-visualization = "0.6.0"
threecrate-core = "0.6.0"

Example

use threecrate_visualization::{show_point_cloud, show_mesh, InteractiveViewer};
use threecrate_core::{PointCloud, Point3f};

// Quick display
show_point_cloud(&cloud)?;
show_mesh(&mesh)?;

// Full control with InteractiveViewer
let mut viewer = InteractiveViewer::new()?;
viewer.set_point_cloud(&cloud);
viewer.run()?;

Requirements

• A GPU with Vulkan, Metal, or DirectX 12 support
• Windows 10+, macOS 10.15+, or Linux with appropriate graphics drivers

License

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.