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Mine Pit Imagery

Triangulate a surface from a point cloud of points and overlay imagery of a mine pit.

Originally posted: pyvista/pyvista-support#159

# sphinx_gallery_thumbnail_number = 2
import numpy as np
import pooch
import pyvista as pv
import rioxarray

url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyvista/vtk-data/master/Data/Sio020320.csv"
file_path = pooch.retrieve(url=url, known_hash=None)

points = np.loadtxt(file_path, skiprows=1, delimiter=",")[:, 1:]
cloud = pv.PolyData(points)
# Plot the point cloud with a special rendering technique
cloud.plot(eye_dome_lighting=True)
mine pit

Triangulate the points

# This will take a minute
surf = cloud.delaunay_2d(progress_bar=True)

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Open the GeoTIFF

url = "https://dl.dropbox.com/s/pqgme8qsl95u9un/Sio020320_transparent_mosaic_group1.tif?dl=0"
path = pooch.retrieve(url=url, known_hash=None)
ds = rioxarray.open_rasterio(path)

# Fetch the texture as an image
image = np.moveaxis(ds.values, 0, -1)

# Create the ground control points for texture mapping
o = ds.x.min(), ds.y.min(), 0.0  # Bottom Left
u = ds.x.max(), ds.y.min(), 0.0  # Bottom Right
v = ds.x.min(), ds.y.max(), 0.0  # Lop left
# Note: Z-coordinate doesn't matter

Use the GCPs to map the tex coords

mapped_surf = surf.texture_map_to_plane(o, u, v)

# Associate the texture with the mapped mesh
mapped_surf.textures["aerial"] = pv.numpy_to_texture(image)

/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.17/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyvista/core/dataset.py:516: PyVistaDeprecationWarning: Texture tracking on datasets is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of PyVista.
  warnings.warn(

Plot it up in 3D and enjoy!

cpos = [
    (469735.37431312964, 1321523.2987377762, 5242.9129552423465),
    (469928.4268006842, 1321916.1316302174, 5171.6505267522025),
    (0.08372003361058433, 0.13788753708579846, 0.986903228836878),
]
mapped_surf.plot(texture="aerial", cpos=cpos)
mine pit
/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.17/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyvista/core/dataset.py:556: PyVistaDeprecationWarning: Texture tracking on datasets is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of PyVista.
  warnings.warn(

Total running time of the script: ( 1 minutes 23.695 seconds)

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