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<p class="MsoNormal">Attendees Vince Marchetti, Don Brutzman. Regrets Dick Puk.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Web3D 2021 Conference.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hugely valuable event, thanks and congratulations to all concerned.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ACM Digital Library still doesn’t have papers published (lots of labor issues all around the world I guess!) but have acknowledged it is on track. We will announce when available.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">https://dl.acm.org/conference/web3d<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Videos were all captured, some hiccups in availability, looks like conference organizers are still working on the problem.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Web3D 2021, (menu) Program > Complete Program
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https://web3d.siggraph.org<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><a href="https://web3d.siggraph.org/program">https://web3d.siggraph.org/program</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Many impressive presentations and special discussions on Cultural Heritage occurred during the conference. Expect to hear more future activity on mail list and in upcoming meetings.
We need to rejuvenate leadership and membership of Cultural Heritage working group.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We updated charters for this group and also Mixed Augmented Reality to note that review and renewed goals and leadership are needed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Metadata defaults in X3D4: Don will experiment as discussed this past week with updates to X3D XML Schema/DOCTYPE/X3DUOM and language bindings to use changed defaults for Metadata*
containerField (from ‘metadata’ to ‘value’). This will permit further testing as in example below.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Python X3D: X3DPSAIL and x3d.py<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">One bug has been noted in XML output escaping, we hope to fix that next week./4.0
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Some difficulties with containerField outputs has been noted, we hope to fix that next week. Careful scrutiny of X3D 3.3 versus 4.0 handling of contained metadata is needed. In
general, Python programmers should not have to worry about this, we will work on that. Thanks to Vince for example test case:<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <meta name='creator' content='Vincent Marchetti'/><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <meta name='created' content='16 Nov 2021'/><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></X3D><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Connections to NumPy described on mailing list. Example welcome, likely will be a sample pattern, not a direct dependency in x3d.py package.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Utilization of standard Python library for JSON input, and print statements for JSON output, is likely to be added. John Carlson will post examples.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Slow but steady, have a great week.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">all the best, Don<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">-- <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman@nps.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">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"">X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics https://</span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">faculty.nps.edu/brutzman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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