On 11/28/2011 6:45 PM, Fox Mulder wrote: > Am 29.11.2011 00:29, schrieb Kent A. Reed: >> the data sets into supporting documentation. This in addition to the >> VRML/x3d models we were already creating and which the community didn't >> like (we never overcame the problem of poor browser support of VRML >> after Silicon Graphics went belly up). > With current browsers suporting WebGL it is quite easy to embedd a X3D > model into a web site without any need for an extra plugin. I tried this > myself some time ago and it worked very good. You can see the test file > at [1] which i created in blender and exported as X3D. > The documentation how to do it is from the official x3dom homepage at [2]. > > Ciao, > Rainer > > [1] https://quakeman.homelinux.net/files/webgl/lcd.html > [2] http://www.x3dom.org/?page_id=1101 > I'm glad it worked for you, Rainer.
I confess it's hard for me not to feel this is "déjà vu, all over again" as the saying goes, but maybe this time the technology will stick. The community I served had seen the VRML effort peak and fade away long before and were very suspicious that X3D would go the same way. The specs kept getting thicker but the applications didn't grow. At the time we could only predict that things would get better. Considering that it's taken more than half a decade to get to where you can do what you did with X3D, they were right to be suspicious. Even now, X3D seems popular mostly in open-software ventures. This also helps explain my community's enthusiasm for 3D PDF. It was being touted by a commercial software giant they trusted to have staying power, Adobe Systems. (Would it be mean spirited of me to point out what that trust bought them?) Regard, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
