[X3D-Ecosystem] X3D Text/FontStyle nodes for glTF and OpenUSD

[John Carlson]

Done in a few hours with minimal knowledge of React and Three:
https://coderextreme.net/helloworld/

More information on Text morphing welcome!

John

On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 2:06 AM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> After a research session, I see support in Three.js especially, Babylon,
> and WebGL.  FXyz seems like the way to go for JavaFX, but I’m not sure who
> is doing maintenance, if any.  Some problems have to be addressed by
> putting spaces between ocharacters.
>
> Python, C++, and Rust have solutions, but I don’t plan to use the latter
> two for much.
>
> It seems like OpenGL or WebGL is the base of some of these.
>
> Of course, if you choose to use a modeling tool, your options are wider.
>
> I haven’t heard of morphing 3D text, or recall seeing that effect anywhere.
>
> From your semi-friendly researcher.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 1:34 AM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This should be read a bit like The Onion.  I believe I posted on this
>> subject a while back.
>>
>> Are there X3D Text/FontStyle nodes for glTF and OpenUSD?  Surely Apple
>> has something for their VisionPro?
>>
>> If not, how the heck is Google or any AI company going to scrape the
>> Metaverse for data?  Video?  Metadata?  Cars with cameras and LiDAR in the
>> Metaverse?
>>
>> Maybe Spatial Intelligence will swoop in and save the day?  Or just plain
>> OCR?
>>
>> Maybe NVIDIA/AMD didn’t think of this when doing 3D acceleration and
>> omitting symbols?  Is this why Khronos is pushing an OpenVG standard?  Oh,
>> OpenVG is supported on my graphics card.  Cool!  How do I use it???  Oh,
>>
>> #include <VG/openvg.h>
>>
>> Cool!
>>
>> Does any X3D browser use this? For Layers or Layout?
>>
>> “
>> OpenVG 1.1 Lite Provisional was released in May 2020, and relaxed the
>> accuracy requirements of stroke path rasterization and normalizes the
>> stencil/blending modes of OpenVG 1.1 so the API can be fully accelerated by
>> any OpenGL® ES 2.0-compatible 3D GPU for the first time, while maintaining
>> high rendering quality.
>> “
>>
>> So how do I do the equivalent of OpenVG with OpenGL?  Or should I even
>> worry about it?
>>
>> Here’s some historical information.  Apparently OpenVG was abandoned in
>> 2011????
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6287650/rendering-svg-with-opengl-and-opengl-es
>>
>> Anyone know the state of textual information for Vulkan or WGSL?  I only
>> know OpenGL fragment and vertex shaders a bit, and I just hear about
>> texture atlases for text.  Maybe Metal and D3D are better?
>>
>> https://youtu.be/mGQRV32Nk3s?si=pdL0qLZ43t9KZpso
>>
>> (Julia says Windows might have a solution—she wanted something
>> cross-platform)
>>
>> Travis has 3 videos, starting here:
>> https://youtu.be/zvGIp-S2mxA?si=yJy9W4x076vKK1v_
>>
>> So it looks like some heroic programmers are figuring out how to do this,
>> maybe cross-platform in Vulkan.
>>
>> Here’s the secret: text made from dots = raster, text made from symbols =
>> character (typewriter),  text made from curves = vector.
>>
>> Apparently, we’ve forgotten how to make typewriters.  Remember the
>> printing press?
>>
>> Someone get a big stamp and put “DUMMY” on my forehead.
>>
>> Don’t even get me started about curved 3D text.
>>
>> Why can’t NVIDIA spend some of their money on cross-platform 3D text APIs
>> and make all of our lives easier? Are they afraid of competing with Apple
>> and Microsoft?
>>
>> Surely Warnock thought of this before PostScript for his 3D language? And
>> we still don’t have good cross-platform APIs for 3D text?  It’s been, like
>> 60 years!
>>
>> Yes, I’ve seen the X3DOM demos, how about text along a 3D curve?
>>
>> Anyone?  An API? A start with new X3D nodes?  I know we can’t standardize
>> without implementation.  How about starting with doing SVG extrusions?
>>
>> Maybe take inspiration from Java3D?
>>
>> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17802_01/j2se/javase/technologies/desktop/java3d/forDevelopers/J3D_1_3_API/j3dapi/javax/media/j3d/Text3D.html
>>
>> Or, more modern:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/Birdasaur/FXyz-DeepSpaceBranch/blob/master/FXyz-Core/src/main/java/org/fxyz3d/shapes/primitives/Text3DMesh.java
>>
>> Here’s the FXyz-Core LICENSE:
>>
>> https://github.com/Birdasaur/FXyz-DeepSpaceBranch/blob/master/FXyz-Core/LICENSE
>>
>> Maybe I’ll add these to my 3D asset manager/contacts app!
>>
>>
>> John
>>
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