potree/PotreeConverter — pull request #80 by chiccorusso (2014-12-22 13:17:42+00:00)
Title: Created a tiling phase.

Hi. I created a PotreeTiler. Using the -t parameter, the normal indexing phase is preceded by a tiling phase that tiles the cloud in the /tiles subdirectory of the output dir. After this phase, the PotreeConverter is run on these new tile files instead than on the original files.
The tiles are created as LAS, and they are not deleted at the end.
I tested it on a 32m cloud, and it lowered the memory usage from 1.9GiB to 670 MiB, while raising the runtime from 360s to 450s.