Gerard Peregrin wrote: > Oooops, I was thinking in the context of application controls, > instrumentation and remote sensing. Is the nature of the VW a natural > terrain that is rendered with coordinate data obtained from a remote sensor?
Err. nope. that's waaay above the VRML level. We just read in a static file format and turn that into rendering and a runtime system (VRML has its own event model that has to be layered over the top of the java3d behaviour system). Remote sensing apps need to use the extensibility parts of VRML, such as scripting, to build anything on the fly. Don Brutzman from the Naval Postgrad Scheel here in the US does a lot of this sort of stuff with underwater vehicles. Ummm... try http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/ to have a look at some of the stuff he's doing with X3D/VRML and our loader code (he's actually funding a reasonable chunk of the development of Xj3D currently). -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
