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CS—04 CASE STUDY FIELD RETAIL / PRODUCTS DATE 2026

The store and
what it sells.

One scan records the store as it is stocked. A phone records single products as 3D models. RadianceView ties them together, so a marker on the floorplan opens the product on the shelf.

A grocery store as seen in RadianceView

A Shelf Changes Every Week

A store is a space and a stock. The space stays put. The stock moves: products arrive, sell out, change shelf and change price. A photograph of a shelf shows what was there on one day from one angle, and a product photograph shows one side of a package with nothing around it.

Tiny Town, a small grocery in the Hudson Valley, was documented with RadianceView to keep both: the store as it was stocked, and single products as objects you can turn around.

Two Captures

The storeThe products
Tool3D scannerPhone
CoversThe whole store in one passOne product at a time
ResultA Gaussian splat you can walk throughA textured 3D model
AnswersWhere is it? What is next to it?What is it? What does the label say?

The Store

The store was scanned in one pass and uploaded as a single scene of 135 MB. In the browser you walk the aisle past the produce, the fridges and the shelves, at the scale of the room.

The store, as seen in RadianceView
The store, as seen in RadianceView
Shelves by the window
Shelves by the window
Produce and drinks
Produce and drinks

The scene is a record of the stock on the day of the scan: what was on which shelf, how much of it was facing the customer, and what was priced at what.

The shelves up close, with their price tags
The shelves up close, with their price tags

A Plan Drawn over the Scan

A floorplan was traced over a top-down view of the scan. The store measures 10.82 by 6.92 metres, or 74.9 square metres, with one sliding door and seven windows.

The floorplan over the scan, with two product markers
The floorplan over the scan, with two product markers
The same plan as a dimensioned drawing
The same plan as a dimensioned drawing

Measurements can also be taken directly in the scene and saved with it. One saved with this scan reads 1.16 metres.

The Products

Two products were then captured on their own with a phone: a tin of albacore tuna and a tin of sardines. Each became a textured 3D model that can be turned in the browser.

The tuna tin as a 3D model
The tuna tin as a 3D model
The same model from the side
The same model from the side
The sardine tin
The sardine tin

Why a Model and Not a Photograph

A package has six sides. The front carries the brand. The back and the sides carry what a buyer, a distributor or a regulator needs: ingredients, nutrition, origin, barcode. The model has all of them.

The back of the tuna tin: origin, story and barcode
The back of the tuna tin: origin, story and barcode
The back of the sardine tin
The back of the sardine tin

A phone is enough. No studio, turntable or lighting rig. The product is captured where it is.

Two versions of each. Every model is stored at full detail and as a lighter version for the web.

ProductFull detailFor the web
Tuna tin130 MB10 MB
Sardine tin329 MB31 MB
The project's product folder: four models
The project's product folder: four models

Tying Them Together

Two markers sit on the floorplan, at the shelf where the tins are sold. A marker shows the product's thumbnail and offers two ways on.

A marker's card on the floorplan
A marker's card on the floorplan

View in 3D puts you in the store, in front of the shelf, with the markers on the products.

In front of the shelf, with both products marked
In front of the shelf, with both products marked

Open 3D Model opens the phone capture of the product itself, with a link back to the plan.

The store gives the product its place. The model gives it its detail. Each is one step from the other.

Sharing

The store, the plan and every product have their own page. Each can be private, unlisted or public, with an optional password, and nothing has to be installed to open them.

Results

  • The store is on record. It can be walked as it was stocked on the day of the scan.
  • Products are objects, not pictures. Two products captured with a phone, every side readable.
  • Place and detail are linked. Two markers on the plan lead to the products, and from each product back to the store.
  • A measured plan. 74.9 m², drawn over the scan, with door and windows.
  • Light enough for the web. Models of 10 MB and 31 MB alongside the full-detail originals.

Where Else It Applies

  • Retail: planograms checked against the shelf, remote store visits, shelf audits
  • Brands and distributors: how a product is placed and faced, store by store
  • E-commerce: a product model and its setting from the same visit
  • Showrooms and markets: a space and the pieces in it, documented together
  • Inventory and insurance: stock and fittings on record on a known date

How It Is Built

  • Capture: 3D scanner for the store; phone for the products
  • Frontend: SvelteKit, three.js, LCC Web SDK for splat rendering
  • Backend: Firebase App Hosting, Firestore, Firebase Authentication
  • Storage: Google Cloud Storage, signed URLs, ranged streaming of splat data by level of detail
  • Floorplans: drawn over the scan, with markers linked to other captures, exported to OpenPlan3D

About RadianceView

RadianceView is an inspection-grade visualization platform for high-fidelity spatial data, designed and built by Laan Labs.

To talk about documenting a store or a product range, request access or email labs@laan.com.