So you’ve digitized lines in QGIS into a shapefile, but want to save the vertices as ASCII file to do other stuff with them? This is not as straightforward as it might seem at first. The […]
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I usually use CloudCompare as viewer for point clouds, as it is really easy to visualize different point attributes. But when vectorizing features from point clouds, I want to display them as linestrings, not individual vertices. […]
Meta AI Research has released Segment Anything, a model that can do automatic semantic segmentation of images without prior training for a specific application. The code, pre-trained models, and the training dataset are publicly available. After […]
The latest edition of German computer magazine C’t has a feature on Stable Diffusion and deploying it on your own hardware, which triggered me to install it on my desktop PC. While AMD graphics cards are […]
As I’ve written in my review of my HP ZBook Power G9, I wasn’t entirely happy with the keyboard layout. The half-height cursor and top-row buttons are annoying. I tried to deal with it by using […]
A customer of mine processes data in tiles of 50x50m size, then merges them into larger tiles of 1x1km size. I wrote a QGIS plugin to take care of all necessary steps, but there are cases […]
I had a feeling that my new HP laptop was not giving full performance, especially in multi-core applications. To check whether my feeling was correct, I ran several benchmarks, Cinebench R23 and Geekbench 6. I also […]
I recently ran into issues when using really large arrays in C++ for a dataset of several hundred million points. I have access to a computer with 512 GB of RAM, but even there the program […]
When it seemed like my laptop had died, I had to choose a new one quickly as I can’t really live without one, as I a) usually work at the dining table, and b) have to […]