XB PointStream

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A cross-browser JavaScript tool which will emulate Arius3D's PointStream viewer. It will be able to quickly render a large amount of point cloud data to the <canvas> tag using WebGL.
XBPS 0.1
XBPS 0.2
XBPS 0.3
XBPS 0.4
XBPS 0.4.5 [Only Lib | Full]

XB PointStream Dev Links

3D Image Gallery
Blogs
Specifications
LightHouse
Github
Twitter
YouTube Videos

Development Resources

GPU Gems
GPU Gems 2

WebGL Specification
WebGL Cheat Sheet
OpenGLES 2.0 man pages

Occlusion Culling Algorithms


Parser Interface

/*
"onstart"
"onparse"
"onfinish"
     
@param {String} eventName
@param {Function} func
*/
addEventListener(eventName, func)


/*
  @param {String} Path to resource
*/
load(path)


/*
  Returns the version of this parser
 
  @returns {String} parser version
*/
getVersion()

/*
*/
getNumParsedPoints()

/*
*/
getNumTotalPoints()

/*
  @returns {Number} value from 0 to 1
*/
getProgress()

/*
*/
getFileSize()

Performance Issue Ideas

  • Spatially partition point cloud into Bounding volume hierarchy and do bounding volume frustum culling
  • Do static rendering
  • Render low LOD when rotating point cloud
  • Push as much as we can to CPU and GPU
  • Use progressive "mesh" optimization to render objects if they are far from the camera
  • Allow user to control LOD
  • Stream point cloud, dynamically create and merge bounding volumes
  • Pre-create Bounding volume hierarchy