Ola, >. Maybe Flash has a use in interactive product demos before we have more >capable W3C SVG Maybe this is a bit of a specialist field but there is also a need in GIS for some interactive 3D web applications (Katrina and the Asian Tsunami brought this home pretty hard). This is however a bit of a mine field at the moment regarding standards. There is X3D[1] from the Web3D Consortium, and the standards which build on it: GeoVRML[2] for specifying large, outdoor scenes, and H-Anim[3] for humanoid animation. X3D is the re-working of VRML in XML, and while VRML has a bad rep for being inconsistently implemented, it still presents one of the lower barriers to entry of the 3D standards. By using XML for 3D you also get access to the standard XML DOM for manipulations and animation (which can be good or bad, depending on your feelings about the DOM). More powerful scripting can be done with Python, which has python-visual (on Debian and derivatives)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:$apt-get install python-visual which is a 3D graphics module for Python. If you need to do 3D beyond what VPython provides, but you don't care about the XML aspect of SVG, there quite a number of tools for 3D which have Python bindings. The grand-daddy of them all is PyOpenGL[4], which gives you complete access to the native OpenGL API (an absolute beast, but it does the job). The PyOpenGL project also has a subproject, OpenGLContext[5], which is a learning environment for OpenGL, much more accessible than raw OpenGL (closer to VPython), and has a tool for importing VRML documents. Other 3D Libraries with Python bindings include VTK[6], CrystalSpace[7], Blender[8], and on the commercial front the Poser[9] character animation program (version 5) is scriptable with Python. There is also the H3D API, a GPL (open source) licensed software development platform for multi-sensory applications. H3D API uses X3D and OpenGL and is the only X3D engine which support Python scripting as far as I know. [10]. [1] Extensible 3D Graphics http://www.web3d.org/x3d.html [2] Geographical Data in VRML http://www.geovrml.org/ [3] Specification for a standard humanoid http://www.h-anim.org/Specifications/H-Anim1.1/ [4] The Python OpenGL Binding http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ [5] A Learning Environment for PyOpenGL and Python 2.2.x http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/context/index.html [6] The Visualization Toolkit http://www.vtk.org/ [7] CrystalSpace game development kit http://crystal.sourceforge.net/drupal/ [8] Blender 3D http://www.blender3d.com/ [9] Poser 5 Character Animation Solution http://www.curiouslabs.com/ [10] http://www.h3d.org/ []'s -- Ian Lawrence http://ianlawrence.info Centre for Bioinformatics INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA-INPA RUA ANDRÉ ARAÚJO N º .2936 , BAIRRO DO ALEIXO MANAUS-AMAZONAS-BRAZIL Research Program in Biodiversity http://ppbio.inpa.gov.br PHONE: 055-92-3643-3358 CEP. 69011 -970 | Please do not send me documents in a closed | format.(*.doc,*.xls,*.ppt) | Use the open alternatives. (*.pdf,*.html,*.txt) http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >>> return [type for type in types if type not in types_to_exclude] If you can see the beauty, then Python got you _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
