Published on 12 May 2026
Historic chapel captured in 3D with XGRIDS K2 scanner
Video flythrough of Durham Castle’s Tunstall Chapel scanned with the XGRIDS Lixel K2, showcasing true-colour point cloud, 3DGS, and mesh outputs.
Durham Castle’s Tunstall Chapel - captured with the new XGRIDS Lixel K2.
This flythrough showcases the scanner's output capabilities, including true-colour point cloud, 3DGS, and mesh.
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The compact K2 is designed for fast, detailed, and accurate data acquisition.
It took 10 minutes to scan the chapel.
The dataset was processed using the new LixelStudio 4.0 for point cloud generation and Lixel CyberColor for 3DGS.
LixelStudio 4.0 introduces improvements to point cloud fidelity, colour accuracy, alignment, and mesh stability, and is also compatible with the XGRIDS L2 Pro and K1.
The survey shows how the K2 can be used to collect detailed and high-fidelity assets, especially for heritage documentation.
Alex Williams, heliguy™ Technical Geospatial Specialist, conducted the scan.
He said: "The K2 takes everything that made the K1 a capable scanner and meaningfully builds on it.
"Point cloud and Gaussian Splat fidelity are both sharper, which makes a real difference in deliverable quality.
"The K2 also offers true-colour point cloud preview live in the Lixel GO app, streamlining the capture process.
"The improved colourised mesh output has already started opening up new use cases for us."
The K2 delivers measurement-ready data (up to 1 cm accuracy) and thin, clean point clouds (~1 cm).
It is equipped with a LiDAR module, three visual cameras (two fisheye and one forward-facing), and integrated RTK module.
For full details on the K2 and LixelStudio 4.0 updates and key features, read our in-depth blog.
Interested in the K2 or want to know more? Get in touch with our in-house survey team.