<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="">The standards development process for X3D stresses backward compatibility. What's covered in the Brutzman and Daly book will not be obsolete or outdated. There have been added developments to the standard since 2007, and there will be new features in v4. The latest standards documents are freely available at <a href="http://www.web3d.org/standards" class="">http://www.web3d.org/standards</a> . The "Node definitions" document (<a href="http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/index.html" class="">http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/index.html</a> ) is the place to start to see the latest version (3.3) of the X3D standard.<div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 16, 2019, at 9:18 AM, iam here <<a href="mailto:iamhereintheworld@gmail.com" class="">iamhereintheworld@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I saw on the site that v4 of X3D will be coming out - I'd just like to know: does this mean that there will soon be a new version of the X3D book by Don Brutzman and Leonard Daly? I ask cause I've ordered the one from 2007, and it's quite expensive...... - I hope it won't be outdated by the time I get it...? :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also had some curiosity about what it takes to WRITE a JS library like the X3D "parser", I guess you could call it....? Like, what are some good books to read on this subject? I'm quite interested in such things - is this book any good? :</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.amazon.in/Tricks-Programming-Gurus-Advanced-Graphics-Rasterization/dp/0672318350/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1550326580&sr=8-8&keywords=andre+lamothe" class="">https://www.amazon.in/Tricks-Programming-Gurus-Advanced-Graphics-Rasterization/dp/0672318350/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1550326580&sr=8-8&keywords=andre+lamothe</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I already have Michael Abrash's graphics books from two decades ago...I love those :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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