-Hi, A offering of classes in a college is good for students, but not very practical for Java developers in industry, I think.
What I expect is a short period of time to train people to prototype from ground level. Mostly are architect issues and concepts. More real complicated examples are helpful to those who try to prototyping a 3D applicatoin in Java. Hope some real design and implementation examples could be found in some books at Sun Microsystem. The J3D still should be one of the best choice for me to prototyping new ideas because it allows other 2D AWT, Swing, and customer JavaBean components working together. Also, I personally love Java better than any other languages. I have tried some J3D APIs, they are rendering fast. Speed is not an issue for my application and I am satisfied with J3D speed. But one thing makes me annoying. The Behavior classes should be designed very similar to Java event delegation model. The original designer did not do that, I have no idea. Any new APIs at Sun should keep Sun's "look and feel" so that it is easy for Java programmers to learn and to design and implementation. There are some limited examples in the tutorial, they are good in helping learning the APIs, but they are not good in architecting a new application in J3D. For instance, I have a laser source which should be rotatable, translatable, and zoomable for people to look at it in any kind of LOD. Those behaviors are easy to implement with J3D. But, if user pick that laser source and put it onto a metal track so that the laser source is confined on the track. The freedom of the laser source should be decreased into 1 D(along the track.) with respect the the track. However, the track and the laser source should still be rotatable, translatable, and zoomable as a whole. Those kind of "embedded" Behavior may cause difficulties in design. I hope it can be done but my knowledge in Java3D is too shallow. Well, thank you all guys for paying attention on this issue. Your reply and disscussion are all appreciated. With all my best! Lee Zhou "� - - �n +���ng� - - �" wrote: > i would if its anywhere near my place (country). > i doubt if there are that much ppl here in the > philippines who's into 3d programming using java3d. > > - ian > > Discussion list for Java 3D API wrote: > > >This training idea might work out for some > >people. What if we put together a class > >each summer here at MSU or alternatively > >at Full Sail? Any takers? > > > > __________________________________ > www.edsamail.com > > =========================================================================== > 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". =========================================================================== 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".
