Re: Of Interest

[Niclas Olofsson <gurun@acc.umu.se>]

Other than perhaps SMIL, do you have pointers to examples? HLAL sounds
sort of cool, but in the end it's a placeholder for "usability", isn't
it. Or is HLAL to be considered "usability specific to the applications
domain" (if you understand what I mean)?

/Niclas

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
> 
> Two emails of interest.  The first is from Holger Grahn at
> Blaxxun repeating suggestions being made on the VRML list
> for the last six months that HLAL's can enable better authoring
> for complex 3D.   The second is the announcement of another
> OASIS technical group where the charter will overlap our
> own although they are explicitly focused on Topic Maps.
> 
> The ability to integrate the upstream descriptions of
> domains and create visualizations based on these is a
> key technology for communication.
> 
> Len Bullard
> Intergraph Public Safety
> clbullar@ingr.com
> http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
> 
> Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
> Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Grahn [mailto:holger@blaxxun.com]
> Subject: [x3d-contributors] Re: [web3d-mpeg] RE: [bod] X3D/XMT options
> 
> An challenge for X3D could be to define an additional much higher level
> authoring format.
> I am thinking of a format where you have timelines, much higher level time
> constructs,
> easier assembly of objects & behaviours, easier integration of media with
> svg, html etc.