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Rotating PLY Point Cloud

LFO and expression generator controlling the Object loader and Model Display point-cloud rendering chain.

A bunny appears as scattered points instead of a solid skin. As it rotates, the points reveal the model’s depth, while image trails soften its outline.

Object loader supplies the model’s vertices and Model Display draws them as points. A repeating ramp becomes a full rotation around the vertical axis. Motion blur combines the new image with earlier frames, giving the points a visible history.

Try it

Open the ZIP directly in score, start playback and show the Window output. The model is included. Lower the motion-blur amount to distinguish individual points from their trails, then increase the LFO rate: with the same blur setting, faster rotation leaves longer trails.

Disconnect the rotation cable and set a fixed angle to inspect the shape without movement. Reconnecting it shows how motion helps the eye reconstruct volume. This uses score’s native geometry renderer; see Model display.

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