Create a utility for making random files

[hobu]

It'd be handy to have a command line utility for creating random data.

[mpgerlek]

10 PRINT "17"
20 GOTO 10

It all depends on your definition of "random" :-)

/snark=off

-mpg

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Subject: [PDAL] Create a utility for making random files (#179)

It'd be handy to have a command line utility for creating random data.

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[mloskot]

Great idea. I'm looking for point randomiser myself, for spatial_index_benchmark, something better than what I use currently (in spatial_index_benchmark.hpp).

[hobu]

My plan is to add a pcrandom utility and beef up drivers.faux.reader to take in options to constrain the random dimensions, descale them data properly, and provide dimensions that can behave like LAS XYZs.

[chambbj]

@hobu I don't know if it will fully satisfy this requirement, but I'm going to push something this morning that allows creating of random XYZ clouds with uniform or normal distributions. It will be in the form of a random kernel and accomplishes this by beefing up the faux reader just a bit.