Justin Couch wrote:
M. Halpin wrote:
Anyway, so I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to load/convert
SVGs into something Java3D
can render as polygons?
Since SVG is an XML-based language, with a bit of XSLT hacking, you
could transform it to X3D and then use one of the loaders available for
that.
The main problem here is that writing the XSLT would be a serious pain,
because although SVG is XML-based, it stores a lot of relevant data in
non-XML structures. By this I mean you get code like
<g transform="translate(10 11) ">
<path d="M 0.016 291.000 L 0.016 294.000" stroke="rgb(0,0,0)" />
...
Rather than
<g>
<transform method="translate" x="10" y="10"/>
<path>
<stroke><rgb_palette><red>0</red><green>0</green><blue>0</blue></rgb_palette></stroke>
...
The latter, although more verbose, could be manipulated by standard XSLT
methods. The former requires deep XPath kung fu and declarative
recursion programming to pick apart. The SVG folks went for conciseness
rather than ease of transformation. :-(
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