Touchdesigner & Polycam Point Clouds: Pt. 1 Scan Anything on Your Phone and Create a Point Cloud

Here’s an easy method to scan a room, object, or just about anything else, and turn it into a point cloud in Touchdesigner.

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Using any lidar-equipped smartphone (I use an iPhone 13 Pro Max in the example video) and the Polycam App you can scan anything in your environment and use that data to create beautiful point cloud artwork in Touchdesigner.

This tutorial covers downloading the app, getting the scan, and importing the point file into Touchdesigner. Once in Touchdesigner, we work on setting up an instancing network that allows you to view, navigate, and ultimately manipulate these scans. In the next video of this series, we’ll cover how to manipulate these scans to look like what’s happening in the video introduction.