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<p class="MsoNormal">Weekly meeting time remains 10-1100 pacific each Friday. (Apologies for when I arrive late, am teaching just beforehand).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Attendees: Dick Puk and Don Brutzman.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Web3D 2021 paper already-extended deadline for papers is tomorrow Sunday 8 August 2021. Deadline for Tutorials, Industrial Use Cases, and Workshops is Sunday 15 August 2021.<o:p></o:p></li><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">WEB3D 2021 CONFERENCE: A Shared 3D Workspace. The 26th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, 8 – 12 November 2021, Pisa / Italy / Worldwide<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><a href="https://web3d.siggraph.org">https://web3d.siggraph.org</a>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">SIGGRAPH 2021 events on Monday 9 August 2021.<o:p></o:p></li><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Overview
<a href="https://www.web3d.org/event/web3d-siggraph-2021">Web3D at SIGGRAPH 2021 | Web3D Consortium</a><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization BOF at #SIGGRAPH2021, presenting virtually - Monday August 9, 10 - 11 PDT or 1 - 2 PM EDT featuring #CesiumJS #ESRI #Web3DConsortium . <a href="https://s2021.siggraph.org/presentation/?id=bof_102&sess=sess222">https://s2021.siggraph.org/presentation/?id=bof_102&sess=sess222</a><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“The ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) session explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial data sets. Speakers demonstrate their latest
tools and application efforts.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Web-Wide Interactive 3D BOF,
<a href="https://s2021.siggraph.org/presentation/?id=bof_155&sess=sess596">https://s2021.siggraph.org/presentation/?id=bof_155&sess=sess596</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Publishing 3D graphics on the Web is powerful. Upcoming X3D V4.0 ISO-IEC Specification improvements add full Web integration, Physically Based Rendering, and VR/AR/Mixed Reality. Web3D participants and partners show how interactive visualization
can unlock industry domains for authors and end users: X3D V4.0, glTF/WebGL, Unity3D/Blender/Meshlab, Geo3D, Medical3D, 3Dprinting/scanning, AR/VR. What other capabilities does the SIGGRAPH community need for 3D publishing on the Web?”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">X3D4 Specification Status Report presented during International Standards Organization (ISO) 4-week annual meeting July-August 2021 is now online. All of our goals and milestones
are again on track.<o:p></o:p></li><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d4">https://www.web3d.org/x3d4</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/sites/default/files/page/X3D%20Version%204%20Overview/X3D4SpecificationStatusAugust2021.pdf">https://www.web3d.org/sites/default/files/page/X3D%20Version%204%20Overview/X3D4SpecificationStatusAugust2021.pdf</a>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">X3DJSAIL Javadoc improvement. X3D Java Scene Access Interface Library (X3DJSAIL) supports programmers with standards-based X3D Java interfaces and objects, all as open source.<o:p></o:p></li><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Javadoc documentation is autogenerated along with source code using X3DUOM and X3D Tooltip information.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Package descriptions are again provided, summarizing functional capabilities of each X3D4 component.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/java/javadoc">https://www.web3d.org/specifications/java/javadoc</a>
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/java/X3dJavaSceneAuthoringInterface.html">https://www.web3d.org/specifications/java/X3dJavaSceneAuthoringInterface.html</a>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">As specification editors for ISO JTC1 SC24 and Web3D Consortium, Dick Puk and I continue steadily resolving editorial issues recorded in the Mantis issue tracker. Summary snapshot
attached, many more still to go.<o:p></o:p></li><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/member-only/mantis/view_all_bug_page.php">https://www.web3d.org/member-only/mantis/view_all_bug_page.php</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good luck everyone with your Web3D 2021 paper submissions – starting our second 25 years of progress! Have fun with X3D4. 8)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">all the best, Don<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br
<a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">brutzman@nps.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics
<a href="http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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