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<p class="MsoNormal">Additions are always welcome.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Books<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Books"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🔖</span></a> Books about X3D and VRML
<a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="50" height="32" style="width:.525in;height:.3333in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01D81E08.78F9D440" alt="to top"></span></a><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><i>Books on Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">X3D Graphics is the international standard for real-time 3D communication.
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<a href="http://x3dGraphics.com" target="_blank"><i>X3D for Web Authors</i></a> by Don Brutzman and Leonard Daly, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Elsevier, April 2007, 468 pages.
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<a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1214715" target="_blank">Free book download in ACM Digital Library</a> is available for
<a href="http://www.siggraph.org/participate/membership" target="_blank">ACM and SIGGRAPH members</a>.
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<a href="http://X3dGraphics.com" target="_blank">X3dGraphics.com</a> provides free
<a href="https://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors" target="_blank">X3D example scenes</a> and
<a href="https://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets" target="_blank">chapter slidesets</a>.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<a href="https://www.movesinstitute.org/Video/Courses/X3dForWebAuthors/X3dForWebAuthorsVideo.html" target="_blank">Course video lessons</a> for learning X3D (also
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOnGlgAFxkWg8ilg-JEbAQ/playlists?view=1&flow=grid&sort=da" target="_blank">
YouTube course video archive</a>). <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<a href="https://cle.nps.edu/xsl-portal/site/x3d">Online course</a> for enrolled NPS and distance-learning students.
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<a href="http://3d-online.com" target="_blank"><i>WebGl HOTSHOT</i></a> by <a href="https://www.web3d.org/about/board/mitch-williams" target="_blank">
Mitch Williams</a>, ISBN-13: 9781783280919, 306 pages, 2014. <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/webgl-hotshot" target="_blank">
Chapter 1</a> shows how X3D complements WebGL. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<a href="https://www.web3d.org/news/permalink/Visualizing-Information-Using-SVG-and-X3D" target="_blank"><i>Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D</i></a> by
<a href="http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/vgeroimenko" target="_blank">Vladimir Geroimenko</a> and
<a href="http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345">Chaomei Chen</a>, editors, Springer, 2008.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/assourin/book" target="_blank"><i>Computer Graphics: From a Small Formula to Cyberworlds</i></a> by
<a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ASSourin" target="_blank">Alexei Sourin</a>, 3rd edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, Singapore, 385 pages, 2012. Chapter 14 discusses X3D and VRML.
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<a href="http://www.NetworkedGraphics.org" target="_blank"><i>Networked Graphics: Building Networked Games and Virtual Environments</i></a> by
<a href="http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.steed" target="_blank">Anthony Steed</a> and
<a href="https://www.sintef.no/en/all-employees/employee/?empId=4083" target="_blank">
Manuel Fradinho Oliveira</a>, <a href="http://www.elsevierdirect.com/ISBN/9780123744234/Networked-Graphics" target="_blank">
Elsevier</a>, 536 pages, 2009. Chapter 7 discusses X3D, X3D-Edit and DIS. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<a href="https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781447124962" target="_blank"><i>Interactive 3D Multimedia Content: Models for Creation, Management, Search and Presentation</i></a>, edited by Wojciech Cellary and
<a href="http://www.kti.ue.poznan.pl/en/node/108" target="_blank">Krzysztof Walczak</a>, Springer London, 302 pages, 2012. Contributed chapters discuss X3D capabilities together with other standards, then describe significant implemented research work regarding
3D/VR/AR systems. Most works provide extensions based on the VRML/X3D standards. Online resource:
<a href="http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9781447124962-c2.pdf" target="_blank">
Chapter 2, Interactive 3D Content Standards</a>. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<a href="https://www.igi-global.com/book/digital-simulations-improving-education/275">Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments</a>, edited by David Gibson (University of Vermont, USA) and Young Kyun Baek
(Korea National University of Education, Korea), IGI Global, 540 pages, April 2009.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=352236" target="_blank"><i>Core Web3D</i></a> by
<a href="http://gridinstitute.com/people/aew" target="_blank">Aaron E. Walsh</a> and Mikaël Bourges-Sévenier, Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey USA, 1088 pages, 2000. Several chapters discuss developmental versions of X3D.
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<i>X3D: Programmierung interaktiver 3D-Anwendungen für das Internet</i>, Peter Schickel and Jörg H. Kloss, Addison Wesley, December 2009.
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<a href="http://www.yes24.com/Goods/FTGoodsView.aspx?goodsNo=2134569" target="_blank"><i>VRML & X3D for virtual reality</i></a> by KyungBae Park, KyungIn Kang and SeungWook Kwak, 21 Century, ISBN-10: 8984681903, 422 pages, 2006 (in Korean).
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<a href="http://www.yes24.com/Goods/FTGoodsView.aspx?goodsNo=2796093" target="_blank"><i>X3D, Who are you? Focus on examples for Web 3D design</i></a> by KyungBae Park and SeungWook Kwak, Global, ISBN-13: 9788955024135, 472 pages, 2007 (in Korean).
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<p><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#VRMLBooks"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🔖</span></a>
<i>Books on Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 97</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">VRML design began in 1994 and the language became a stable International Standard in 1997. Of interest: X3D is a third-generation design that is fully backwards-compatible with the second-generation VRML 97 standard. Thus all design guidelines
and technical details in the following textbooks remains relevant. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/vrml2sbk/cover/cover.htm" target="_blank"><i>VRML 2 Sourcebook</i></a> by Andrea L. Ames, David R. Nadeau, and John L. Moreland, John Wiley & Sons, 1996. (also see
<a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Vrml2Sourcebook">
VRML 2 Sourcebook examples</a> in X3D) <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<a href="http://www.x-3-x.net/vrml/archive/annotatedVRML2/BOOK.HTM" target="_blank"><i>Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual</i></a> by Rikk Carey and Gavin Bell,
<a href="http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0201419742,00.html">
Addison Wesley</a>, Boston Massachusetts, 1997. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<a href="http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~broehl/vrml/lnvj" target="_blank"><i>Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java</i></a> by Bernie Roehl,
<a href="http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/books/lnvj.html" target="_blank">Justin Couch</a>, Cindy Reed-Ballreich, Tim Rohaly and Geoff Brown, Ziff-Davis Press (Macmillan Publishers), 1997.
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<a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_VRML_2_0_handbook.html?id=rKoBsI02GpsC" target="_blank"><i>VRML 2.0 Handbook</i></a> by Jed Hartman and Josie Wernecke,
<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0201479443">Addison Wesley</a>, Boston Massachusetts, 1996. Also see the
<a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Tenochtitlan">
Tenochtitlan examples</a>. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<a href="http://books.google.es/books/about/VRML.html?id=FSdMAAAAYAAJ" target="_blank"><i>VRML: Exploring Virtual Worlds on the Internet</i></a>, by Walter Goralski, Matthew Poli, and Peter Vogel, Prentice Hall PTR, January 1997.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<a href="http://fabdaz.fh-potsdam.de/daesslerwp/?p=60" target="_blank"><i>Das Einsteigerseminar VRML</i></a> by Prof. Dr. Rolf Daessler, April 2001, BHV Publishing Group, 498 pages, in German. Available
<a href="http://fabdaz.fh-potsdam.de/daesslerwp/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ES_VRML.pdf" target="_blank">
online</a>. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<a href="https://www.manning.com/books/3d-user-interfaces-with-java-3d">3D User Interfaces with Java 3D</a> by Jon Barrilleaux, Manning Publications, 2000. A guide to computer-human interaction in 3D with direct mappings to VRML.
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<p style="border:none;padding:0in">Also available: <a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#VRML">
VRML Resources</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">p.s. if you meet anyone making money from books, wow! Take a picture please!! 8)<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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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> x3d-public <x3d-public-bounces@web3d.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Konstantin Smirnov<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 8, 2022 3:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> X3D-Public <x3d-public@web3d.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [x3d-public] Books on x3d<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible to write a x3d book, that can be sold very good, despite being free books? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What topics here can be bestsellers? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Programming integration also<o:p></o:p></p>
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