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<p>The latest version of XSeen (V0.3) has been pushed to GitHub. It
includes initial work on Animation. After looking at many
different kinds of implementations of 3D animations, I concluded
that getting the developer involved in the rendering pipeline for
each frame was not needed, nor desirable. X3D though the use of
events for each stage of the pipeline does put the developer in
the "loop" and forces inefficiencies, especially for pre-defined
(key-frame) animations.</p>
<p>While XSeen does not yet offer full key-frame animation (just
start/end points + transition style), it does illustrate how to do
key-frame animation without the developer in the middle of each
frame. This structure does hint at how the developer can get
access when needed.</p>
<p>In addition to code updates, there is now an XSeen project page
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://realism.com/xseen">http://realism.com/xseen</a>) where all of the test cases are listed.
Each test case can be executed from the web page and displays as
an overlay. <br>
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<p>* XSeen project page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://realism.com/xseen">http://realism.com/xseen</a><br>
* XSeen code on GitHub: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/DrX3D/XSeen/tree/development">https://github.com/DrX3D/XSeen/tree/development</a><br>
* XSeen language definition: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://tools.realism.com/specification/xseen/language-definition">http://tools.realism.com/specification/xseen/language-definition</a><br>
* XSeen internals documentation: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://tools.realism.com/specification/xseen/xseen-internals">http://tools.realism.com/specification/xseen/xseen-internals</a></p>
XSeen is built upon the architecture of X3D and A-Frame. The
JavaScript library is supported by THREE and TWEEN plus pieces
extracted from X3DOM. John Carlson provided the JSON to XML
converter. It is early-stage work and not everything is fully
developed out or functional. Please report any issues you have with
the software or documentation. Contributions are always welcome.
XSeen code is joint licensed as MIT / GPU. XSeen documentation is
licensed as Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC BY-SA).<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<font class="tahoma,arial,helvetica san serif" color="#333366"> <font
size="+1"><b>Leonard Daly</b></font><br>
3D Systems & Cloud Consultant<br>
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chair<br>
President, Daly Realism - <i>Creating the Future</i> </font></div>
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