From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Raimund Dachselt
[dachselt@inf.tu-dresden.de]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:32 PM
To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Re: XML anyone?

Hi,

in my PhD project Contigra (www.contigra.com) I am using XML to 
declaratively describe 3D components, such as 3D widgets. For the 
implementation part we use (extended) X3D. The component interface as well 
as every configured instance of a component is also described in XML. 
Finally, the whole scene assembly for an interactive 3D application is 
again described with XML. It is a kind of scene graph, except to provide 
abstractions on a higher level, i.e. it is basically a 3D component graph. 
Please refer to my last SIGGRAPH sketch (summary available at 
http://w3serv.inf.tu-dresden.de/english/projekte/CONTIGRA/Publikationen/) 
for further information. The idea is to entirely use declarative XML 
documents as a basis for 3D applications and to avoid imperative coding and 
3D format dependency as much as possible. Thus toolkit support is easily 
possible and non-programmers are far more enabled to develop 3D 
applications, especially for the Web.

Kind regards,

Raimund
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Raimund Dachselt
Dresden University of Technology - Department of Computer Science
Endowed Chair for Multimedia Technology
D-01062 Dresden

Phone: +49 351 463-38514
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E-Mail: dachselt@inf.tu-dresden.de
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