Hi Justin I have been researching vessel/sea simulation since the previous millennium, before Java 3d.
We (Naval Architecture Dep. of IST Lisbon), are currently developing a j3d prototypical tool for the VRSHIPS-ROPAX2000 European project. And since December (shame on me) I have an alpha view-frustum package for the use of the community, just waiting for some days of work on it before release. (It provides view-frustum prediction and other stuff, so it could be helpful for the community. Could also be adapted for Xith3d.) We also have a promotional project starting in September to be prototyped in Java3d - a sort of Contraptions game, with crazy sail boats. I do expect Sun to: 1) announce soon the new strategy; 2) have it tuned to media rich real-time apps (gaming) and mobile devices; 3) preserving most of the accumulated effort (Sun's and others); 4) improve j3d platform independence and ease of installation (implied by 2). Thank you all for the support, and to the recently leaving personnel from Sun's j3d team. I have to get back to that view-frustum package to pay you back a bit. Antonio Cacho =========================================================================== 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".
