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 &lt;canvas&gt; tag using WebGL.- #########

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{{Admon/obsolete}}|}|} <!-- LEFT-HAND COLUMN -->{| id="mp-upper" style="margin:0 0 0 0; background:none;"<!-- |colspan="3"|<div style="background: #ffff00">'''Performance Issue IdeasImportant!'''- The [[CDOT Development Systems]] have been re-arranged .</div>|- -->| class="MainPageBG" style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background:#f8f8f8; vertical-align:top; color:#000;"|{| id="mp-left" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top; background:#f8f8f8;"! <h2 id="mp-tfa-h2" style="margin:0; background:#b51418; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; color:#fff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">About XB PointStream<br /h2>* Spatially partition |-| style="color:#000;" | [[File:Shell.png|right|150px]]<div id="mp-tfa">The typical method used to represent 3D graphics for applications such as video games is that of a textured meshed. Essentially the object is made up of a mesh of flat triangles and a 2D texture graphic that is applied over the mesh to give it its colour and depth. However, this is not the only way to represent 3D graphics. Another method for representing 3D graphics is that of a point cloud which is a set of coloured points in 3D space. While a point cloud into Bounding volume hierarchy is usually larger than a textured mesh in terms of amount of data, it provides a level of realism not found in a mesh. Furthermore, some 3D scanning equipment such as 3D scanners, LiDAR equipment, medical scanners, and do bounding volume frustum cullingMicroSoft's Kinect all deliver their data as point clouds.* Do static XB PointStream provides a framework to simplify the streaming and rendering* Render low LOD when rotating of point clouds allowing them to be rendered in a web page without any plug-ins. WebGL, a JavaScript API based on Open GL ES 2.0 enables the creation of 3D content in the web browser without any plugins. It is currently implemented in release version of Firefox and Chrome and development versions of Safari and Opera. To support the creation of 3D content many web libraries have been written. However, most of these libraries are based on textured meshes. XB PointStream is different from these other libraries in that it focuses on point cloud* Push as much as we can clouds. It is highly customizable to adapt to CPU different file formats and GPUprovides support for addition of customizable shaders.</div> |-! <h2 id="mp-tfa-h2" style="margin:0; background:#b51418; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; color:#fff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Demos</h2>|-* Use GL_ARB_occlusion_query | style="color:#000;" | <div id="mp-tfa">XB PointStream uses WebGL and thus you will need to use a WebGL enabled browser to cull points which do see the demos running live. Current browsers that support WebGL are Firefox 4.0+ and current release of Chrome. Development versions of Safari and Opera also support WebGL. If your video card is really old or does not contribute meet standards, your browser may also have problems supporting WebGL. [http://www.doesmybrowsersupportwebgl.com/ Click here to test your browser]. If your browser does not support WebGL, please check out the videos of the scene demos instead.</div><br>{| class="wikitable" border="1"|+!Demo !! Run it! ([http://www.doesmybrowsersupportwebgl.com/ needs webGL enabled browser]) !! Watch it!|-| Ply Point Cloud || http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/demos/andor/|||-| Drag and Drop Viewer |||| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3AGz-8X-aI|-| Vitual Museum || http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/demos/museum/|||-| SMS Demo (render BB of octant requires a device with motion scensors and count contributing fragments)FF4 || http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/demos/sms/||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U37owvJj3Ws|-| User Defined Shaders || http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/demos/0.5/demo/user_shader/ |||-| Multiple Point clouds || http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/demos/0.5/demo/many_clouds/ || |}  |}| style="border:1px solid transparent;" |<!-- Right-hand column -->| class="MainPageBG" style="width:40%; border:1px solid #ccc; background:#f8f8f8; vertical-align:top;"|{| id="mp-right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top; background:#f8f8f8;"! <h2 id="mp-itn-h2" style="margin:0; background:#b51418; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; color:#fff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Current Blog Posts</h2>|-| style="color:#000;" | <div id="mp-itn"><!-- {{Planet Current Posts}} --><rss>http://asalga.wordpress.com/category/point-cloud/feed/|short|max=10</rss>|-! <h2 id="mp-tfa-h2" style="margin:0; background:#b51418; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; color:#fff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Downloads - Release 0.8</h2>|-| style="color:#000;" | * '''[http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.8/xbps-min-0.8.js minified] | [http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.8/xbps-min-0.8.zip src + example] | [http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/archives/0. This can be used for culling 8 full]''backface points'|-! <h2 id="mp-tfa-h2" style="margin:0; background:#b51418; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; color:#fff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Development Links</h2>|-| style="color:#000;" | * [http://cdot.lighthouseapp.com/projects/52886-xb-pointstream Bug Tracker]* [http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream Github]* [http://en.wordpress.com/tag/xb-pointstream/ Blogs]* [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/XB_PointStream/specs Specifications]* [http://twitter.com/XBPointStream Twitter]* [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=xb+pointstream&aq=f YouTube Videos]* [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/XB_PointStream/extending_xbps Extending XBPointStream]* [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/XB_PointStream/custom_parsers Custom Parsers]|-! <h2 id="mp-tfa-h2" style="margin:0; background:#b51418; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; color:#fff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Projects using XB PointStream</h2>|-| style="color:#000;" |* [http://www.visual-experiments.com/2011/04/13/google-chrome-photosynth-webgl-viewer-extension/ Google Chrome Photosynth WebGL Viewer Extension]* Use progressive [http://3dtubeme.com/ 3D TubeMe] |-! <h2 id="mp-tfa-h2" style="margin:0; background:#b51418; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; color:#fff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Old Releases</h2>|-| style="meshcolor:#000;" optimization to render objects if they are far from the camera|* Release 0.75 ['''[http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.75/xbps-min-0.75.zip src + example]''' | '''[http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.75/xbps-min-0.75.js minified]''' | '''[http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/archives/0.75 full]''']* Release 0.7 ['''[http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.7/xbps-min-0.7.zip src + example]''' | '''[http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.7/xbps-min-0.7.js minified]''' | '''[http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/archives/0.7 full]''']* Release 0.6 ['''[http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.6/xbps-min-0.6.zip src + example]''' | '''[http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.6/xbps-min-0.6.js minified]''' | '''[http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/archives/0.6 full]''']* [http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.5/xbps-0.5.js Release 0.5 Minified] * Allow user to control LOD[http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.5/xbps-min-0.5.zip Release 0.5 source + example]* Stream point cloud, dynamically create and merge bounding volumes[http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.4.5.zip Release 0.4.5 library only]* Pre[http://github.com/asalga/XB-create Bounding volume hierarchyPointStream/archives/0.4.5 Release 0.4.5 Full]* [http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.4.zip Release 0.4]* [http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.3.zip Release 0.3]* [http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.2.zip Release 0.2]* [http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/asalga/releases/0.1.zip Release 0.1]|}|}  __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__