Kent, Rainer; WebGL does only about 5% of what the X3D spec does; mind you, for most users, that is the most important 5%.
;-) As someone who presented X3DOM to the HTML5 Technical Committee on behalf of Dr. Johannes Behr; I think that his approach is a good one. WebGL has its issues; and some big ones at that. But, if they can somehow give it longevity, cross platform compatibility, speed, and keep it focused on some core functionality, it'll do well. I would not keep models in a WebGL format; keep them in, say, STL, and that way you'll be able to re-render them in a few years, should you wish to. (X3D would work, too, as it is an ISO standard; warts and all) JohnS. >>> 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?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
