0.6

If #43 passes, this should be closed as well.

I had to add some minor fixes before staging.

• Added a PSI test in ref testing framework
• Added including psi.js in xbps.js
• FF4 was reporting an error with 'chun...

Framework now uses PSIParser properly

Repo: https://github.com/aSydiK/XB-PointStream/tree/43-PSIParser
Test: tests/PSI_Parser/index.html

Will create new ticket ...

Branch: http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/tree/bug98
Test: All tests should work

We should make getting a 3D context more flexible by checking the following strings:

"webgl","experimental-webgl","moz-webgl","webkit-3d"

instead of only checki...

Branch: http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/tree/bug96
Test: all demos and tests should render

We need to replace setInterval() with requestAnimationFrame() since this new method will not needlessly render the canvas when another window covers it.

Branch: https://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/tree/bug_pts
Test: tests/pts/

Autodesk is adding native point cloud support to 3D Studio Max. They support two file types, one of which is ASCII for which we can easily write a parser.

I fixed the anti-aliasing in another branch so both Minefield and Chrome.

Setting this to resolved.

Works well on OSX 10.5 and 10.6

I believe this issue has been resolved. I can load the demos fine on OSX 10.6

fixed newlines
Branch: http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/tree/bug94

Branch: http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/tree/bug94
Test: tools/asc_exporter.py should export to .ASC using Blender

Often we need point clouds of polygon meshes. One solution is to have a Blender exporter which exports to ASC.

I added some extra logic which fixed the problem. I added the case where if the values consistently add up to unit length 1, then these values are likely normal...

I ran into a problem trying to load a .ASC file. I found out that it was because the parser had a problem trying to determine the contents of an .ASC file. For ...

Branch: http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/commits/bug91
Test: demos/accelerometer

We should add the SMS demo to the repository

I played with anti-aliasing on Chrome and found that the performance hit is ~10 fps.

On my macbook pro:

Chrome: ~42fps with AA ~51fps without AA
Minefield: ~65f...

This is no longer an issue, I think it was Benoit who fixed it.

I had to add a bit of a hack to get it to render properly on an nVidia card.

Branch: http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/tree/bug81
Test: demos/many_clouds/...

I managed to get Sundae.js working with XB PointStream. I wrote a blog about it here: http://asalga.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/hacking-sundae-js/

Branch: http://g...

Carl just released 0.5 of sundae.js, I'm going to see about integrating it into our framework.

The library expects all vertex data from the parsers to in synch. That is, it expects to be fed the same number of vertices as normals and colors. If 100 vertic...

Looks like Chrome is using anti-aliasing and Minefield isn't. I'll look into this.

Also, I wonder if this is related to the frame rate. I'll try toggling anti-a...

We should update the library interface to allow users to instantiate and use the library in a more JavaScript-style way.

var ps;

function start(){
  var ps = ...

createProgram is returning a WebGLProgramObject. We should abstract this return type.

We have a number of demos which use shaders which have been defined in strings. We can safely move these shaders to script tags instead. They will be easier to ...

On OSX 10.6, some shaders are having issues with coloring.

Here is my first draft on how to create a parser:
http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/XB_PointStream/custom_par...

This is something that we need to document as users will be writing shaders which will hit this problem, not us.

I set up jsdoc-toolkit and added a bunch of comments to the PointStream and ASCParser classes.

Branch: http://github.com/asalga/XB-PointStream/tree/bug15

There ...