VRML is animated in web pages and applications now ... with Java, intgrated with the modern object-oriented web friendly ( networking ), safe, secure computing reading, rendering, writing files when appropriate ( and not otherwise ).
Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen wrote: > > The kindly Rev. overheard "Roger" saying on 27 Nov 2002: > > >> hey... I'm new VRML world and I've just heard that >> it will be replaced by X3d... Why? > > ... while VRML either runs in a browser plugin > or in a stand-alone application, X3D escapes > from that box. > > You'll eventually be able to see all kinds of web page > and application integration -- > http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&oe=UTF-8&selm=Xns92D367164E3D9revbob%40127.0.0.1 It's been done with Java3d, including animating Web3d's H-Anim Avatars with Gesture animations triggered by mouse clicks by the user, with Sound ... with the Sun VRML Loaders ( not the 'new' Yumetech ones ). VRML Animation with Java3d without the plug-ins using Java3d ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html > > And, a personal favorite, GeoVRML has been added, > which makes it possible to use X3D as a native > format for geodata. ... Lot's of terrain rendering is done with the DEM format, I'm kind of neutral on formats as long as their open, DEM is fairly popular and get the job done: Terrain Rendering with DEM, Nasa's Web Renderings with Java3d ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/terrain_rendering.html > and the X3D syntax may make MPEG-4 media >(which already uses VRML) better able > to be used outside its own little box. > Right, Web3d.org has a MPEG list too, and it's been discussed there: | H-Anim and MPEG-4 are dependendent on | implementing technologies, of which Java3d | is one of the best available to us and both | H-Anim and MPEG-4 have been held back | by misperceptions, false statements, and | unethical conduct. | | The VRML Loaders from Sun provided | | the highest level of functionality for | loading VRML files into Java3d ... | | -- and still do -- | | ~~ please ~~ correct me ... if any other | VRML loader is more capable for loading | VRML into Java3d and rendering it with | animation. | http://www.web3d.org/WorkingGroups/web3d-mpeg/hypermail/2001/0159.html VRML can be effiecently animated with modern methods though lots of the people working with federal funds ( NSF, NIST, NIH, NPS ) use older methods then ones kids are learning and using high school today: | Computer Integrated Manufacturing increases | manufacturing productivity, research on | human modeling in the workplace is funded by | our tax dollars and done by the | | NIST's Visualization and Virtual Reality for Manufacturing | | division. | | The NIST's VRML model ( with animation ) can be animated | with Java3d using Web3d's VRML Loaders from Sun | ( as shown above, on Linux ) or with the older, | more restrictive method the government's researchers use. | | The more modern, efficient, and portable technology of | using portable Java with Web3d's H-Anim Avatars | is not used by the NIST. | | The interactive Chess Player (above) can | reach for, lift, and move the chess pieces for you, | interactively on the web. | http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/games_with_java3d.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/sc_manufacturing_simulation.jpg Lies, fraud and unethical conduct of people paid through tax funds has hurt an important part of technology sector, a sector that is important to our economy and national security. We can already animate the VRML including H-Anim Avatars with Java3d. VRML Loaders working now with NIST & NPS data sets: --------------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/vrml_loaders_working.html Some people believe that the Sun VRML Loaders can't be used to animate Web3d.org's H-Anim Avatars with Sounds & TouchSensors Triggering Gesture Animations without expensive certificates based on false and misleading statements from Aaron Walsh, Justin Couch, Alan Hudson, and the grossly inaccurate and uninformative "Core Web3d" from Prenitice Hall. But it can be done: just because the brilliant Australian Programmer tried and failed, it doesn't mean that others can't -- and haven't -- succeeded where the Yumetech Gang Tried & Failed. Neither the new the older loaders are fully spec compliant, but there's lots & lots of great fun stuff you can do with the old Sun Loaders and VRML, or with VRML & and Java 1.1. -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator. -------------------------------------- "Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard" =========================================================================== 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".
