Virginia Tech

Visual Computing Group , ARC

Deep Media Examples

HPC Bootcamp - Summer 2010

ISO Scene Graph: Extensible 3D (X3D / VRML)

Cityscapes & Urban Planning
- Streetcrosser
- Wayfinder
3D graphs
- Fishy data
Chemical Markup Language (CML) translations
Math
- V. Bulatov's geometry
Proteins
- Sys X (from VMD, pdb) myoglobin
DNA Blast sequences
- ParaMEDIC
Art
- Web3D Art
Architecture
- INT3D
Objects
- Military models
VRML field guide
- http://www.toucan.co.jp/indexE.html

Deep Media Standards-based Software

X3D / VRML Viewing:

see first: http://legacy.caus.vt.edu/setareh/archresearch/Module_2/How_to_X3D.html

If you want more specific details about X3D software engines, please see the X3D Public Wiki for detailed player and authoring support.

Plug-ins
- Octaga (win, lin, mac)
- FreeWRL (opensource lin, mac, win)
- BitManagement (win)
- Cortona (win; !vrml only!)
Stand-Alone
- InstantReality (win, lin, mac)
- Xj3D browser & toolkit (opensource java; win, lin, mac)
- Planet 9 - Raygun mobile and handheld X3D client
- There are a number of others including: H3D.org (Haptics Opensource)

X3D / VRML Authoring:

X3D-Edit (win, lin, mac)
Vivaty Studio (win)
WhiteDune (win, lin, mac)
There are also exporters for Blender, Maya, 3DSMax, VMD, ... Okino PolyTrans

X3D for Web Authors Book and website with examples, slides, podcast lessons!!!
X3D Scene Authoring Hints ... see also VRML / X3D Tools @ Web3D.org
VRML Tutorials
* http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/vrml/vrmlman/vrmlman.html
* Vrml Reference Manual

Deep Media Background and Publishing / Links

Web3D Consortium

Polys, Nicholas F., Brutzman, Don, Steed, Anthony, Behr, Johannes (2008). "Future Standards for Immersive: Report on the IEEE VR 2007 Workshop." IEEE Computers Graphics & Applications 28(2).

Preprint chapter 'Publishing Paradigms with X3D': http://people.cs.vt.edu/~npolys/3D/Book_chap_07_prep.pdf
Visualizing information using SVG and X3D : XML-based technologies for the XML-based Web

ACM / Eurographics 12th annual Symposium on Web3D- a publication architecture for simulation data:
* http://people.cs.vt.edu/~npolys/web3d2007/acm_irve_07_acc_npolys.pdf
* http://people.cs.vt.edu/~npolys/web3d2007/npolys_color_plate.pdf

Other Applications

Scientific Vis platforms

Paraview : www.paraview.org

Visit : https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html