Donald Day wrote: > > I recently purchased the book titled > > 'Java 3D API Jump Start' (Walsh,Gehringer). > > In the book a URL is referenced that is claimed > to have material mentioned in the text. > > Nav.ing to the URL > > "web3dbooks.com/Java......." > > results in a redirection to Amazon.com. ... > > I was hoping for just a bit more expected 'content' :^) >
Some URL are below, but also see this web page which includes additional URLs to Selman's Book and Sun Java3d FlyThru Demo and the Sun VRML Loaders: With the Sun VRML Loaders you can load & View VRML with "Picking", view the SceneGraph, and animated Web3d.org's H-Anim Avatars with Gesture Animations in a browser on Windows and Linux: Java3d & VRML: Sun's FlyThru, Selman's Picking with Java3d ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/games_with_java3d.html | Web3d's H-Anim & Java combine, in a new book (sort of) ... | | A new Java3d book has a Human model, it's pseudo H-Anim, | which is both good news & bad news. | | It's good that Web3d's H-Anim is being featured in | another book, but we've been Aaron Walsh -ed again, | it's inferior to established methods: | | You can see a picture of it here (with the older, better method): | | "Java 3d Jump Start" Screen Capture of H-Anim "Human" Example | -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_H-Anim.gif http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html | | ( and see, copy & try some of the VRML files ): http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/shout3d/models/H-Anim/ http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/shout3d/models/H-Anim/nancy_H-Anim_x3d.wrl | | The smaller all-red 'Cylinder Man' is the example from the book, | the familiar 'Gesturing Avatar' Nancy (walking) is for comparision; | it is a proper, VRML based H-Anim Avatar loaded & animated with | the Web3d VRML Loaders developed & donated by Sun, and Java3d. | | | New book: " Java 3D API Jump-Start " (with flawed H-Anim example) ----------====================== http://web3dbooks.com/java3d/jumpstart/welcome.html | | Source Code Examples (including H-Anim "Human" pictured above) |--------------------- http://web3dbooks.com/java3d/jumpstart/J3DJumpStart.zip http://web3dbooks.com/java3d/jumpstart/Human.html http://web3dbooks.com/java3d/jumpstart/Java3DExplorer.html http://web3dbooks.com/java3d/jumpstart | | The Human model demonstrated in the book allows you | to move the arms, but it's not as fully featured as these: | | "H-Anim Avatars Animated with Java: YOU CONTROL" | ------------------------------------------------ http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/H-Anim_Avatars.html | * includes Chess Player: | | *** he MOVES chess pieces, you click on the board. | *** dials control & reflect his movements (shoulder & elbow) | *** works on: Windows, Linux, Macintosh ( __ The Web __ ) | | "VRML Loaders for Java3d from Sun: Animate H-Anim Avatars" | ------------------------------ make "mov"-ies too ! with JMF http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html | | Gait Analysis Model with Motion Capture Data (pure Java) |---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/character_animation.html | | | "People Poser of H-Anim Avatars ( VRML plug-in required ) | ------------------------------- VRML EAI : plug-in + Java. http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/HAnimPoser.html | | * Load, View, Pose multiple H-Anim Avatars (sequentially) | | "Core Web3d" 'H-Anim example by Bernie Roehl, October 1999: | ------------ Aaron Walsh's other H-Anim, also inferior: http://www.coreweb3d.com/code/15/ | http://www.coreweb3d.com/code/15/Listing%2015.1%20VView%20(Example%203).java | http://www.coreweb3d.com/code/15/Listing%2015.3%20VView%20%20(Example%204).java | | | 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 http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0107&L=java3d-interest&P=30298 http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/h-anim/hypermail/2001/0195.html | | | False statements and unethical conduct by people | receiving federal funds have hurt and continue to hurt | those of us studying, developing, researching, and | working on human animation on the web ( and elsewhere ) | with Java and Web3d's VRML standard: | https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9809209 | | | | This is a lie, and it hurts Web3d, Java3d, and students in the US: | | > | > Hey, what sort of crack are you on? | > | > That codebase didn't even support > protos let alone H-anim. | > | > | > -- Justin Couch | http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/h-anim/hypermail/2001/0197.html http://www.web3d.org/WorkingGroups/h-anim/hypermail/2001/0197.html | | | - - - - - - - - | | I would like to thank Sun for developing and donating | the VRML Loaders to Web3d, and in particular thank two | of the Sun engineers: Rick Goldberg & Doug Gehringer | who wrote most of the code (from what I see in the files), | I've been using the VRML Loaders for Java3d since the 1900's | and have enjoyed using them, and learned from the experience. | | Web3d's VRML and H-Anim are open standards, and both | Web3d and Java have large, relatively friendly, | active developer communities ... publishers should | take advantage of that fact, and when developing new books | they should reach out to the developer community and seek | our help: | | that would lead to better books than Walsh's "Core Web3d" | book which has serious errors: we need & deserve better books. | http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0108&L=java3d-interest&P=R68914 -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator. -------------------------------------------- "Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard" Donald Day wrote: > > I recently purchased the book titled > > 'Java 3D API Jump Start' (Walsh,Gehringer). > > In the book a URL is referenced that is claimed > to have material mentioned in the text. > > Nav.ing to the URL > > "web3dbooks.com/Java......." > > results in a redirection to Amazon.com. ... > > I was hoping for just a bit more expected 'content' :^) > > > Does anyone know where this URL has moved to? ... > > Thanks > > Donald Day > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- 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". 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