<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for looking at this example, which was one of three that needed a little updating.</div><div><ul><li>X3D Example Archives: Basic, Points</li><li>This directory demonstrates point-based rendering using PointSet and PointProperties. Such techniques are an important option for rendering scans and point clouds.</li><li><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/" target="_blank">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/</a><br></li></ul><div>It is not clear that PointProperties is well supported by many browsers.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless PointProperties does have excellent support, as the following composite-screenshot image showing 9 separate players demonstrates.</div><div><ul><li>X3D Example Archives: Basic, Points, Archimedes Point Properties</li><li>PointSet rendering of 3D scan with color applied per vertex, renderable with PointProperties settings</li><li><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/ArchimedesPointPropertiesIndex.html" target="_blank">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/ArchimedesPointPropertiesIndex.html</a></li></ul><ul><li>ArchimedesPointProperties X3d Players Comparison </li><li><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/ArchimedesPointPropertiesX3dPlayersComparison.png" target="_blank">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/ArchimedesPointPropertiesX3dPlayersComparison.png</a></li></ul><div>Author Vince Marchetti also provided the following interesting example, which emulates a spherical shape for points as sprites, using a 2D image showing a
simple
rendered sphere. Cool hack!</div></div><div><ul><li>X3D Example Archives: Basic, Points, Basic Point Sprites</li><li>PointProperties test case emulating spherical point sprites by displaying colored images of spheres. This model is suitable for X3Dv4 implementation comparisons and conformance.</li><li><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/BasicPointSpritesIndex.html">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/BasicPointSpritesIndex.html</a></li></ul><div>It is easy to think of a few more examples that might be added... especially perhaps showing PointProperties effect present versus missing, side by side. Contributions welcome.</div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace">all the best, Don</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace">-- </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace">X3D Graphics, Maritime Robotics, Distributed Simulation</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace">Relative Motion Consulting <a href="https://RelativeMotion.info" target="_blank">https://RelativeMotion.info</a></font></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM John Carlson via x3d-public <<a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org" target="_blank">x3d-public@web3d.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It must be full moon, because this message popped up when I was looking for PointProperties. I wonder if this was ever solved?<div><br></div><div>See attached console log:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_misdr52z0" alt="image.png" width="472" height="272"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 4:44 PM James Saunders <<a href="mailto:james@saunders-family.net" target="_blank">james@saunders-family.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">HI John,<div><br><div>Thanks for looking.</div><div><br></div><div>One reason why the reason why the HTML file you have built does not work is because it is failing to load d3-x3d:</div><div>In the html file header:</div><div> <script src="../../../dist/d3-x3d.js"></script><br></div><div>Needs swapping for:</div><div> <script src="<a href="https://raw.githack.com/jamesleesaunders/d3-x3d/master/dist/d3-x3d.js" target="_blank">https://raw.githack.com/jamesleesaunders/d3-x3d/master/dist/d3-x3d.js</a>"></script><br></div><div><br></div><div>It also needs D3.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks anyway. All the best,</div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 4:54 AM <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com" target="_blank">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I copied the DOM document from “Elements” into foo4.html and got the following:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'chart' of undefined</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know why the original code doesn’t show the same error, but here’s foo4.html attached.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">John</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com" target="_blank">yottzumm@gmail.com</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, November 21, 2019 10:39 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:james@saunders-family.net" target="_blank">James Saunders</a>; <a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org" target="_blank">X3D Graphics public mailing list</a>; <a href="mailto:x3dom-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">x3dom users mailing list</a><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: [x3dom-users] PointProperties in X_ITE</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Your response is null????<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">See console.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">John<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank">Mail</a> for Windows 10<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:james@saunders-family.net" target="_blank">James Saunders</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, November 21, 2019 5:00 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org" target="_blank">X3D Graphics public mailing list</a>; <a href="mailto:x3dom-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">x3dom users mailing list</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[x3dom-users] PointProperties in X_ITE<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I appreciate the PointProperties node is a new proposal in v4 and at he moment it has not yet been implemented in x3dom. However I see this is implemented in x_ite (<a href="http://create3000.de/users-guide/components/shape/pointproperties/" target="_blank">http://create3000.de/users-guide/components/shape/pointproperties/</a>).<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I am trying to use PointProperties to get larger particles on the following chart:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://raw.githack.com/jamesleesaunders/d3-x3d/ScatterPlot/examples/X_ITE/chart/ParticlePlot.html" target="_blank">https://raw.githack.com/jamesleesaunders/d3-x3d/ScatterPlot/examples/X_ITE/chart/ParticlePlot.html</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><Shape class="particles"><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <Appearance><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <PointProperties colorMode="POINT_COLOR" pointSizeMinValue="1" pointSizeMaxValue="5" pointSizeScaleFactor="100"></PointProperties><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </Appearance><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <PointSet><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <Coordinate point="4.444444444444445 22.22222222222222 17.77777777777778 ...."></coordinate><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <Color color="0.8431 0.1882 0.1529 ...."></color><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </PointSet><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></Shape><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">But the points still only come out as single pixels?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">What am I doing wrong?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I want to make the particles (points) larger.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I can see PointProperties working here:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/ArchimedesPointPropertiesIndex.html" target="_blank">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Points/ArchimedesPointPropertiesIndex.html</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jim<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div>
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