"Luo, Wei" wrote:
> > I am new here. I am interested in developing a web-based interactive
> > landform similation model using Java and Java 3D so that the user will be
> > able to simulate and explore landform evolution from anywhere through a
> > web browser.
[snip]
> > My questions is this: will Java 3D be able to easily genetate perspective
> > 3D view of resulting landforms and make a series of such view into an
> > animation?
Java3D is a low-level graphics rendering API, in the same vein as OpenGL
or Direct3D. That is, it is capable of doing anything, you just have to
code it yourself. So, really your question should be aimed at the same
level that you would ask an OpenGl list - and the answer is "of course
it can".
There seems to be a reasonable amount of interest of people doing
geographic/cartographic visualisation using J3D on the list, so they
will be able to help you out even more than I can. I just write the
low-level tools to help them out. I've recently been attempting to do
some work to enable large-scale visualisation in the context of the
GeoVRML working group for the loader that we are writing. Haven't hit
too many problems yet, but really haven't dug into it much either.
--
Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/
Freelance Java Consultant http://www.yumetech.com/
Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/
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