2009/9/22 bawolff <[email protected]>:

> We could display 3d world files (VRML and what not. which honestly
> this whole webGL thing imho seems to vrml/x3d what canvas is to svg -
> two sides of the same coin. but than again i'm not all that familiar
> with it). I'm not sure how useful that'd be. Could display 3d shapes
> perhaps where the user could control the viewpoint.  Maybe to make
> 3d-tour esque things where you could look arround a place. Overall the
> uses of such a thing seem rather minimal.


Displaying 3D models is an obvious and useful one! I wonder if the
rendering speed is useful. (The Firefox 3 and 3.5 SVG renderer is
usably accurate, but *really slow*.)

We'd probably need a server-side renderer to drop back to. But yeah,
that's a use for this.


- d.

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