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<p style="margin-bottom:15.6pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dear X3D community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15.6pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">the X3DOM team is pleased to announce stable release 1.6 of the X3DOM Library (<a href="http://x3dom.org/">x3dom.org</a>)!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15.6pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">With version 1.6, we hope to make X3DOM more flexible, stable and well-documented.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15.6pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">These are the most important changes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">A completely new documentation portal, available via the link from www.x3dom.org and directly via
<a href="http://doc.x3dom.org/"><span style="color:windowtext">doc.x3dom.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Extensive node API documentation resources, including detailed information about all nodes and fields<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">A lot of great, new tutorials, along with a brand-new "Getting Started" guide<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">A first version of the new x3dom examples portal, available at
<a href="http://examples.x3dom.org/"><span style="color:windowtext">examples.x3dom.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">All former examples from the x3dom repository can now be found at this central example page<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">A fresh re-design of the examples page will be available in the near future<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Automated nightly testing suite for improved stability and qualitiy assurance, available at
<a href="http://testing.x3dom.org/"><span style="color:windowtext">testing.x3dom.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Testing for Chrome and Firefox (Windows 8)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Regression test suite, based on script result evaluation and explicit screenshot comparisons<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Automation and documentation (timeline) for testing process<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">New DOM field interface for more efficient field access, using getFieldValue / setFieldValue and requestFieldRef / releaseFieldRef (documentation: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://doc.x3dom.org/author/index.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">doc.x3dom.org/author/index.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">New onoutputchange event, for easy handling of ROUTE output in JavaScript<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">can be installed on any node<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">tutorial available at </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://doc.x3dom.org/tutorials/animationInteraction/onoutputchange/index.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">doc.x3dom.org/tutorials/animationInteraction/onoutputchange/index.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Gamma-correct lighting by default<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Example and tutorial at </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://doc.x3dom.org/tutorials/lighting/gamma/index.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">doc.x3dom.org/tutorials/lighting/gamma/index.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">A new TURNTABLE mode for more intuitive user interaction<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Example and tutorial available at </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://doc.x3dom.org/tutorials/animationInteraction/navigation/index.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">doc.x3dom.org/tutorials/animationInteraction/navigation/index.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">First version of the pointingDeviceSensor component, including PlaneSensor, TouchSensor and CylinderSensor<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Example and tutorial available at <a href="http://doc.x3dom.org/tutorials/animationInteraction/transformations/index.html"><span style="color:windowtext">doc.x3dom.org/tutorials/animationInteraction/transformations/index.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">First version of a new, long-lasting Shape Resource Container and ExternalGeometry node<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">documentation of progress available </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://www.x3dom.org/src/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">www.x3dom.org/src/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">will be enriched with new features for compression and streaming during development of X3DOM 2.0<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">will replace ImageGeometry, BinaryGeometry and POPGeometry in X3DOM 2.0<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">Instead of permanently linking to the dev version, from now on, we recommend to always use the latest stable release, which is available via the following links:<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://x3dom.org/download/x3dom.js"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">xwww.x3dom.org/download/x3dom.js</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://www.x3dom.org/x3dom/release/x3dom.js"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">www.x3dom.org/x3dom/release/x3dom.js</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks a lot for all your community support, and for using X3DOM for your 3D graphics applications on the Web!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Max & the X3DOM core development team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Dipl.-Inform. Max Limper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Visual Computing System Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Fraunhoferstraße 5 | 64283 Darmstadt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Telefon +49 6151 155-554 |Fax -196<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">max.limper@igd.fraunhofer.de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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