<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Interesting article: "The Scientific Paper is obsolete" : <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/" class="">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Quick Summary and comment:</div><div class="">After some hot air about Stephen Wolfram and Mathematica, the article discusses IPython, now call Jupyter, a Python-based notebook style application for performing and documenting scientific/engineering computation.</div><div class="">This article only discusses 2D graphics, but X3DOM can be used as a back-end to do 3D visualization in a Jupyter notebook. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The examples I've found on the web are all in the context of a much larger computation toolkit such as Mayavi <a href="http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/" class="">http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/</a> or Fenics <a href="https://fenicsproject.org/" class="">https://fenicsproject.org/</a>.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does anyone have a "Hello World" complexity example of creating an X3DOM scene in a Jupyter notebook and rendering it inside the notebook, that can be put in the Web3D Examples set?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vince Marchetti</div></body></html>