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X3D Viewers (WAS RE: XSLT vs. CSS (Re: Indexing))

• To: 'Didier PH Martin' <martind@n...>, "'Thomas B. Passin'" <tpassin@c...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: X3D Viewers (WAS RE: XSLT vs. CSS (Re: Indexing))
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:56:02 -0500

Hello Didier:

Yes.  The standard isn't finalized and of course, everything is 
a beta, but there are three implementations of note at this 
time:

o http://mediamachines.com Flux.  An Active X plugin and toolkit. Reads XML.
Pay attention 
  to the installation instructions.  Best for someone just getting started
or who needs a 
  solid Windows implementation that looks good and runs fast.  Note that the
main guy in 
  this company is Tony Parisi, a legend because he is one of the three
people who brought 
  3D to the web originally.
o http://www.xj3d.org Xj3D Linux, Windows, and Java - browser and toolkit.
Reads XML.
  Open source.  Powerful stuff for powerful people.  This is the
consortium's commitment 
  to open source and "no standard before implementation".
o http://www.bitmanagement.de/developer/contact/examples/x3d/x3d.html This
is a version 
  of the Contact VRML97 viewer that uses DOM and transforms XML to VRML.  I
haven't tested 
  it but the group that does this is one of the best in the business of
those who 
  survived the industry shakeout.

I wrote an article for XML.COM with the details of X3D 
and a sample tutorial.  If it gets published, more information 
will be available in a digestible chunk. There are extensions 
such as GeoVRML and H-Anim that are exciting.

len

From: Didier PH Martin [mailto:martind@n...]

Hello Len,

Len said:

> ... post ....http://www.3dez.net/X3D/CML/
>

Didier ask:
Len, I tried to find an X3D viewer without success. Do you know if there are
any or if there are some work in progress to build ones.

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