Topography
Visualisation
Toolbox

Tools to enhance small topographic variations in surface meshes

The Topography Visualisation Toolbox was originally developed for visualising carved rock art in laser scans of rock panels in Southern Sweden. The tools continue to adapt and develop landscape archaeology methods to highlight the detail and topographic changes in localised surfaces.

Version 2.1.0 is available for download

In the current version, there is a Topographic Visualisation tool for laser scan and SfM mesh files (.obj, .stl, .ply) with improved visualisations and additional tool parameters to tailor the output plots, as well as a new Point Cloud Visualisation tool for .xyz, .pcd, .las, and .laz files. The toolbox currently supports Windows and MacOS. The program folder, which includes the executable file and associated information for your preferred OS, can be downloaded below.

The program is provided under MIT copyright license.

If you use this software for your work, please use the information below. The text on this page should be cited separately.

@software{tvt_distrib,
  author = {Green, Ashely and Ivarsson, Oscar and Potter, Rich and Horn, Christian},
  month = may,
  title = {Topography Visualisation Toolbox (TVT)},
  url = {https://github.com/Swedish-Rock-Art-Research-Archives/tvt_distrib},
  version = {v2.1.0},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15479454}
}