Someone on UKcaving asked about displaying 3d models on the web, as opposed to making them available as downloads. Andrew immediately suggested generating vrml files and I see that Therion "appears" to be able to generate these. However, I cannot find a Firefox plugin that will display these, or X3D files. Has anyone else thought about this issue? It would be good to be able to display and manipulate models directly in a browser window. Graham
VRML is a dead format. There's nothing that is effectively replacing it. WebGL is showing promise (partly because it's based on OpenGL, which is *the* graphics standard, rather than some funky invented one). Do these demos work for you? http://khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Demo_Repository Web things are by default read-only. Do you mean viewing them from different angles, rather than editing them? Julian. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Graham Mullan <graham.mullan@coly.org.uk> wrote:
Someone on UKcaving asked about displaying 3d models on the web, as opposed to making them available as downloads.
Andrew immediately suggested generating vrml files and I see that Therion "appears" to be able to generate these. However, I cannot find a Firefox plugin that will display these, or X3D files.
Has anyone else thought about this issue? It would be good to be able to display and manipulate models directly in a browser window.
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Do these demos work for you? http://khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Demo_Repository
Not for me with Google Chrome 8.0.552.224 (up to date), despite it being listed as Chrome compatible. First time I have not had Chrome automatically download what it needs. No time to investigate further, sorry. Bruce
+++ Julian Todd [2010-12-20 15:14 +0000]:
VRML is a dead format. There's nothing that is effectively replacing it. WebGL is showing promise (partly because it's based on OpenGL, which is *the* graphics standard, rather than some funky invented one).
Do these demos work for you? http://khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Demo_Repository
Needs an exceedingly new browser, e.g. firefox 4.0, which isn't even released yet so far as I know. Pity we've had to wait till now for this. VRML was actually sufficient for our cave-viewing needs, but it never got popular enough to work very well. Lets hope WebGL will be better, but it's going to be a while before we all have shainy-enough kit. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/
On 19 Dec 2010 at 12:11, Graham Mullan wrote:
Someone on UKcaving asked about displaying 3d models on the web, as opposed to making them available as downloads.
Andrew immediately suggested generating vrml files and I see that Therion "appears" to be able to generate these. However, I cannot find a Firefox plugin that will display these, or X3D files.
Has anyone else thought about this issue? It would be good to be able to display and manipulate models directly in a browser window.
Cortona 3D Viewer is supposed to do this job. Currently only for Windows (W2000, XP, Vista) http://www.cortona3d.com/Products/Cortona-3D-Viewer/install.aspx Regards Matthias Mansfeld -- Matthias Mansfeld Elektronik * Leiterplattenlayout Neithardtstr. 3, 85540 Haar; Tel.: 089/4620 093-7, Fax: -8 Internet: http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de GPG http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de/gnupgkey/mansfeld.asc
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