Category: 3D Modeling

The latest 3D modeling news, featuring reality capture technologies like LiDAR and photogrammetry, plus software solutions for processing accurate digital models.

Kīlauea Tephra Cone Mapped with Lidar

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has released a new map…

September 15, 2026

Multispectral Imaging Maps Hidden Stratigraphy

Sixteen wavelengths in an open excavation Researchers from Aarhus University…

September 8, 2026

Photogrammetry in Games: Rebuilding Gallipoli

Building the terrain from archival records BlackMill Games has released…

September 1, 2026

Autonomous Navigation Lidar for ESA Moon Mission

Editor’s Note: Autonomous navigation lidar is enabling machines to understand…

July 28, 2026

Lidar Supports Vivid Sydney Projection Mapping

For Vivid Sydney’s Creative Technology After Dark, lidar scanning was…

July 7, 2026

Preserving an Icon: Liberty Bell Digital Twin

The Liberty Bell Digital Twin Project recently created the first…

July 2, 2026
The four stages of 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction, visualised as a single progression. A sparse point cloud provides the initial spatial skeleton (left); large overlapping Gaussian primitives are seeded from those points and begin to occupy volume (second); the optimiser densifies and refines those primitives, packing them tighter as the form converges (third); finally, alpha-compositing from the correct viewpoint produces a photorealistic render with no visible primitives remaining (right). The primitives never disappear, they simply become coherent. This is not a surface mesh, not a voxel grid, not a neural network at render time. It is millions of learned ellipsoids, each carrying position, shape, rotation, colour and opacity, composited in depth order at real-time frame rates. Image: Mike Devers / Cr8ive Media

Gaussian Splatting and LiDAR: A Practitioner’s Field Guide

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is one of the most talked-about…

June 23, 2026
New Coherent Lidar Expands What 3D Sensing Can See

New Coherent Lidar Expands What 3D Sensing Can See

A new lidar system developed by researchers at the University…

June 23, 2026

Cyprus History With 3D Heritage Modeling

An island-based French artist is blending traditional physical sculpting with…

June 19, 2026

World Cup Technology: Digital Twins and Smart Balls

FIFA’s latest World Cup technology combines high-resolution 3D body scans,…

June 15, 2026

Delhi Digital Twin for Tax and Asset Management

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is using drones, GIS, and…

June 9, 2026

AI and Lidar in Forestry: The Future of Forest Data

Key Takeaways: Artificial intelligence and lidar are transforming forestry from…

June 2, 2026

Webinar: LGSx to Deliverable – Leica + Mach9

Leica Geosystems and Mach9 Showcase End-to-End Reality Capture Workflow Webinar:…

May 22, 2026

How Flyover Zone Rebuilds 3D Ancient Worlds

Some technologies capture the world as it is. Others attempt…

May 21, 2026

Webinar: Scan-First Digital Twins for Operations

Digital twins are often positioned as visualization tools, but in…

May 15, 2026

Leica LGSx Integration Added to Mach9 Digital Surveyor 2

The integration eliminates manual lidar conversion workflows and enables same-day…

May 14, 2026

Tuvalu Digital Twin: Mapping a Nation at Risk

Written by Caroline Beach Tuvalu is a small Pacific island…

May 4, 2026

Vicki Lukas on 3DEP and the Future of Mapping

A 35-year career, the completion of 3DEP, and what comes…

April 21, 2026

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