Plugin idea: Organized transport

[john-maidbot]

Observations:

1. Organized pointclouds should be directly compressible as a png image. But not all pointclouds are organized.
2. Often, an observer of a pointcloud has a particular viewpoint that does not include the entire pointcloud. (e.g. you have a dense pointcloud of an object, but you cannot see every point in that cloud, only the points on the surface and in your FOV. and you only want to transmit what you can see)

This plugin organizes your pointcloud either via pin-hole projection or spherical projection relative to a reference frame (or does nothing if your pointcloud is already organized) and then compresses the projected 2D array as a png image. As you might guess, this is a lossy compression in most cases.

It is mostly just an idea I wanted to try. If you dont mind lossy compression, draco is probably better.

[john-maidbot]

Alternate name idea: organized transport