XB PointStream

Releases

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

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