# potree/potree

WebGL point cloud viewer for large datasets

Repository: https://github.com/potree/potree
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/potree
Homepage: http://potree.org
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-01-08T10:01:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 50/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 61, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5142, "days_push": 237, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5585, forks 1361 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:22.591793+00:00)

## What it is
Potree is a free open-source WebGL-based renderer for viewing large point clouds directly in web browsers. It uses octree-based level-of-detail rendering to handle massive datasets and includes a companion converter (PotreeConverter) for preparing point cloud data.

## Use cases
- view large lidar point clouds in a browser
- render massive point cloud datasets on the web
- visualize laser scan data in 3D
- embed a point cloud viewer in a web application
- convert LAS files for web-based viewing
- explore surveying and scanning data interactively

## When to choose
- you need to render point clouds with millions to billions of points in a browser
- you want a free, self-hostable 3D point cloud viewer
- you work with lidar, photogrammetry, or laser scan data and need web delivery

## When to avoid
- you need to render meshes or standard 3D models rather than point clouds
- you need a native desktop application with GPU-heavy offline rendering
- your data is not converted to the Potree octree format

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: graphics, data-visualization, web-scraping
- domain: graphics, data-visualization, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: point-cloud, webgl, octree, 3d-rendering, lidar, viewer, geospatial, web-server, javascript

## Member repositories
- potree/potree (main) score 50

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:22.591793+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:55:32.840441+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/potree/potree (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:22.591793+00:00, sha 7980598314d2)
  - homepage: http://potree.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:49.416387+00:00, sha 44136fa355b3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.