WebSurfels

WebSurfels is an library for high-quality point cloud rendering on the Web. The implementation uses EWA splatting and renders normal-aligned splats to reconstruct the sampled surfaces.

This work is part of my Master's thesis at TUM and is mainly experimental.

There are three npm packages in this repository:

• web-surfels is the core library
• example-server contains examples how to run the code on the server, see another README in the subfolder for details
• example-ui contains an Angular project with a few visual demos, see another README in the subfolder for details

Running locally

Currently, no packages are published on npm. Therefore, the dependencies need to be linked locally.

First, set up the core library. Run following in the web-surfels folder:

• npm install to get third-party dependencies
• npm run build to build the code (TypeScript to JavaScript)
• npm link to register package locally
• optionally: npm run test to run tests (but there are not many of them)

When you change the library code or run npm install, you might need to re-build the library and re-link it.

After the core library is ready, you can run server-side and browser code examples. See additional README files in the example-server and example-ui subfolders.