<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">If doing history, perhaps an explicit HISTORY SECTION, with dates / eras.<div>Early era<br><div>SGI - Cosmo Player</div><div>Flux</div><div>Cortona</div><div><br></div><div>Boom era</div><div>Freewrl</div><div>Vivaty (Flux II)</div><div>Instant Player</div><div>Octaga</div><div>H3DViewer</div><div>Bitmanagement</div><div>...</div><div>Consolidation and specialization era</div><div>- x3dom</div><div>- x_ite</div><div>- view3dscene</div><div>- freewrl<br></div><div><br></div><div>My history with web3d:</div><div>After my career in photogrammetry petered out I applied for a job at Electronic Arts game studio, thinking my hard-core algorithm skills would be in demand. I was rejected (they didn't say it but too old for culture). I taught a course in game programming for a few months. Then landed a project job developing an industrial training simulator, using Cortona and its ISA editor (which had great routing diagrams and utility nodes - imagine programming almost entirely in 2 routing diagrams for 8 months -- it was massive). Cortona used vrml format - first I heard of it, about 2006.<br><div>Then I found Flux about that time, and contacted its owner to suggest making it opensource. He said maybe he should, he'd think about it. I found it was opensource a while later and took a snapshot, before it was pulled. I did a 'historical virtual tour' of a town using Flux.<br></div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/airdriehistoricaltour/">https://sites.google.com/site/airdriehistoricaltour/</a><br></div><div>Then about 2009 I found freewrl which was for linux and OSX, with friendly and chatty developers. 6 months later I had it working in windows. And I found out how bad it was compared to Cortona and Flux But opensource, cross-platform, and improvable. A decade later freewrl is near end-of-life, but somehow I keep it going.</div></div></div><div>-Doug</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 2:53 PM GPU Group <<a href="mailto:gpugroup@gmail.com">gpugroup@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">A look back in time, lots of dead and archived links. <div>Links and references could be refreshed to be relevant to someone new.</div><div>":See Also" section - could be eliminated or pared down, and some moved to references indirectly through <a href="http://web3d.org" target="_blank">web3d.org</a> pages that expand on the topic</div><div>- for example in "See Also" there are links to Blaxxun, Freewrl (stub link), Flux (archival, with no active download link)</div><div>- instead a link to web3d browser comparison page would show current / active development.</div><div>-Doug</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 2:18 PM Anita Havele <<a href="mailto:anita.havele@web3d.org" target="_blank">anita.havele@web3d.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D</a>
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The X3D Wikipedia page may need updates. This page has
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<p>As a community we are asking for your input on how best to make
X3D's description accurate and current. <br>
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<p>All feedback is welcome!<br>
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<p>We'll be discussing this briefly at the <a href="https://www.web3d.org/working-groups/x3d" target="_blank">X3D Workign
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Best regards,
Anita-Havele
Executive Director, Web3D Consortium <a href="http://www.web3d.org" target="_blank">www.web3d.org</a>
Phone: +1 248 342 7662
<a href="http://www.web3d.org/havele" target="_blank">http://www.web3d.org/havele</a></pre>
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