LiDAR in AEC

Promotional animation simulating LiDAR datapoints set to a piping rehabilitation scene

Client: Brown and Caldwell
Software: Modo / Adobe After Effects
Level of Effort: 12 hours

Creating an engaging animation

This promotional animation was used as part of a larger discussion about advanced technologies being used in the AEC industry. The idea was to capture the essence and functionality of LiDAR and what starts as a few points of light can quickly build to many millions of points to create a dimensional object. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a method of using a light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges (variable distances) to an object. These pulsed laser measurements are then used to create a dataset that can be used to generate a 3d model.