Hi, I read a publication at Linkedln from Dr. Pragya V. and I think it could be important for WebODM. I paste the publication here:
The Most Popular Point Cloud Viewer on the Web Has an Expiration Date.
Potree powers thousands of point cloud applications. LiDAR viewers. Digital twins. Survey platforms.
Under the hood, it runs on Three.js, the library that actually renders your points on screen.
But here’s the problem. Potree ships with a copy of Three.js r123. From 2020. Today, Three.js is at r183. Sixty releases ahead.
But Potree can never get there.
It hit a ceiling at r163. Because that’s when Three.js permanently dropped WebGL 1.
And Potree’s entire custom rendering engine, every shader that paints your point clouds, depends on WebGL 1.
Upgrading isn’t an option. It would mean rewriting the entire rendering system from the ground up. That’s not a patch. That’s a new project.
The tool that helped this industry is slowly becoming the tool that will hold it back.
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