RE: [geovrml] Long Term Liaisons

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Title: RE: [geovrml] Long Term Liaisons

Thanks James,

I will probably do as you suggest. Our HumanML Archeology associate uses a system which is also Java3D-based, so it makes sense for folks involved with this to help inspire a better X3D/GeoVRML Loader.  I haven't followed that development very much, but I will try to put some time into it.

Hi to Don. I suspect my next task will be to come up with some specific suggestions for proceeding. Some real world use cases are already being talked up in other venues, and I am copying this to the EMTC so that we can discuss it a bit at tomorrow's GIS SC telecon.

At 11:47 AM -0700 6/9/03, Neushul, James USA wrote:

> Rex,
>     Great Email! 
> I have been doing a lot of work with GeoVRML and X3D here at the Naval
> Postgraduate School.  We are very interested in extensible
> solutions to the situation you describe.  Currently I have a
> terrain server that uses a web interface, the GeoVRML globe, and
> GeoTransform to allow net access to 3D terrain straight from DTED
> (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) files.  The methodology I have
> applied is XML / XSLT / Java Servlet driven and is extemely portable
> to other applications.  The benefits of immediate and
> network-centric visualization tools are very apparent, and have wide
> reaching applications in the military and civil sectors. 
>  
>     I think that one of the most
> important priorities of this effort should be to produce a fully
> functional reference implementation of a X3D/GeoVRML loader so
> that browser and plug-in dependence will detract less from the
> development process.  XJ3D (http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/source/xj3d.html) may be a good
> starting point for this, but they are not currently supporting GeoVRML
> very well.
>     I have accomplished a lot in
> this area - with things like drawing lines on terrain using LOS
> algorithms, and setting things like orientation and elevation for
> objects on terrain - and am ready to contribute.  Please consider the NPS SAVAGE
> (Scenario Authoring and Visualization for Advanced Graphical
> Environments) group, a part of the MOVES (Modeling, Virtual
> Environments & Simulation ) curriculum - as a resource for these
> efforts.
>  
> Thanks,
> Captain
> James D. Neushul, USMC
> 0602 Communications
> Officer
> Student, Computer Science
> Naval Postgraduate School
> Email: jdneushu@nps.navy.mil
> Personal Email:jdn_email@fastmail.fm
> Ph: 831-656-7585
> Ph:
> 831-583-9474

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