David Grace wrote: > Hi all, > > - Is it a 3D API for J2ME? From what is on the site, yes. Specifically, it is only for ME decides - mobile phones, pagers and maybe up to PDA-class devices. Their emphasis is on small memory foot-print rather than comprehesive coverage of all programming possibilities up to a CAVE like Java3D does.
> - Any idea of what kind of applications this API will be aimed at? Small display stuff. They talk about wanting a simple renderer that you can just give a static cube to and not do anything else with it. Reading between the lines, I think they are trying to be profiling the rendering API to give different levels of capability. For this, I think that's why they are looking at X3D, because it has a specific tailoring process for different device classes. There is a simplistic static-only profile that does just geometry and appearance and nothing else. They might be trying to hook this sort of X3D compatibility steps with the APIs and requirements of the mobile device maker. Anyway, due to a number of activities we (Yumetech) are involved in, I'm going to shoot the lead an email and see if we can join the process. Not necessarily as a spec designer, but more as a coordinator/advisor for the profiling and X3D interfaces. We have a number of fires burning that are non-Java3D with the Xj3D work and we might be able to provide a lot of assistance for them. -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== 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".
