[X3D-Public] X3D to VRML working with Matlab Simulink animation

[Don Brutzman]

Hi Jan, it is very good to hear from you again.  It is really super to see that you are still proceeding on these important capabilities, many people here at our university are impressed.

I've add your links to the metadata in our example .x3d scene, and also linked your videos under X3D Resources.

	http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/Matlab
	http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Videos

It would be great if you were available sometime to review this progress, either as part of our regular X3D Working Group meetings (Wednesdays 8-10 pacific) or directly with Ben and I when convenient.  We'll study your links further.

The X3D team is keen to ensure that your ongoing improvements might take full advantage of our evolution/revolution standardization efforts in X3D v3.4/v4.0.  The recent advancement of HTML5 to final W3C Recommendation status (after 15 years of work!) shows how important this kind of steady effort can really be.

Of possible interest:  Web3D Consortium currently is in the nominations period for our annual Board of Directors election, continuing through 14 November.  If Humusoft of Mathworks is interested, we're happy to discuss that too.

Looking forward to further progress together, good luck with your work.


On 10/17/2014 2:09 AM, Jan Danek wrote:
> Dear Don and all,
>
> Glad to see that you appreciate connection of MATLAB / Simulink to the VR world - thanks for
> your continuing support!
>
> Your wish list quite matches our plans, and of course there are more plans... We understand
> importance of X3D, also on our list.
>
> We have already done few things from the list:
>
> - In addition to Orbisnap, our multi-platform free standalone viewer, we now support any
> HTML5, X3DOM -enabled Browser. Just enter "localhost:8123" in the address line while you
> have some Simulink 3D Animation model open / running. The bi-directional connection works
> also across the network. The Inverted Pendulum example 'vrpend' shows how you can set the
> setpoint using sensors from a browser (enable Interactive mode in the context menu).
>
> - 3D World Editor for authoring virtual worlds
> With MATLAB behind, the editor offers also geometry optimization (polygon reduction)
>
> Current set of features summed here:
> http://www.mathworks.com/products/3d-animation/features.html
>
> Some more examples showing various aspects of MATLAB / Simulink interaction:
> http://www.mathworks.com/examples/3d-animation
>
> Some videos here:
> http://www.mathworks.com/products/3d-animation/videos.html
>
> Have fun with Simulink 3D Animation!
>
> With Best Regards,
>
> Jan
>
>> Am happy to report that we have a very nice example showing the latest Matlab Simulink VR animation toolkit, which (after a number of years) is still using VRML.  This demo is working well with an X3D scene translated to VRML.
>>
>> Example, simulation and support documentation online.  Prerequisite:  Matlab R2014B (released about a month ago).
>>
>> http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/Matlab/
>> http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/Matlab/BouncingBoxSimulink.wrl
>> http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/Matlab/BouncingBoxSimulink.x3d
>> http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/Matlab/BouncingBoxSimulink.html
>> http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/Matlab/BouncingBoxSimulink.png
>>
>> Simulink model, documentation and original example:
>> http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/Matlab/BouncingBoxSimulinkProject.slx
>> http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/Matlab/BouncingBoxSimulinkMatlabVRtoolExample.pdf
>>
>> Many thanks to Ben Cheng for all of the worthy work on this model, which adapts an example that accompanies Matlab.
>> http://www.mathworks.com/help/sl3d/examples/bouncing-ball.html
>>
>> Also attached is a screen shot (with a slightly squished box) plus our wish list of tasks and opportunities for Mathworks to resume their progress with VR as a part of the Web3D Consortium and X3D community.   We will keep this up to date online at
>> http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/Matlab/MathworksWishList.txt
>>
>> Have fun with X3D!
>>
>> all the best, Don
>
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all the best, Don
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