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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:black'>Hello, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:black'>I have never
heard of that 2012 book you mentioned, but the one you have from 2007 is
perfectly fine, and you can always find the latest specification updates at
web3d.org. But like Joe has already said, try to work by following examples of
what interests you. There are more than one way to go about doing similar
things (like using a Web3D browser or embedded directly in HTML5) that can have
significant differences at the core. This may seems strange to you, but the
more you can go back in time and understand the history of X3D, the more you'll
be able to get a grasp of "the whole thing". Having said that, I
still find old VRML books to be useful, and there are several of those. X3D is
kind of the same (I sometimes even mix the two together), just much more
advanced as it is done in XML encoding. You may find this mailing list a little
technical for a beginner, but there's also a new Facebook group that may work
well for you at: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/web3d/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/web3d/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:black'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:black'>Gina-Lauren<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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[mailto:x3d-public-bounces@web3d.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>iam here<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 10, 2019 1:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> x3d-public@web3d.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [x3d-public] Good books<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I'm new to all of this, I was just wondering if there were
any good books on X3D? I dug up ONE on Amazon, by Leonard Daly and Don
Brutzman, but that one is from 2007! Isn't there anything newer which will
explain the whole thing, starting right from the basics, through till advanced
stuff? (there's another one on another site, by Jesse Russell and Ronald Cohn,
which is much newer (2012) - is it any good?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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