[x3d-public] [x3d] Agenda; improved support for specification scenes in X3D Basic Examples archives

[Roy Walmsley]

Don,

Thanks for the contribution. Unfortunately it only arrived twelve hours
after the meeting finished. However, I will add an editorial comment to the
minutes to include your contribution.

Regards,

Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Brutzman [mailto:brutzman at nps.edu] 
Sent: 03 December 2015 06:10
To: Roy Walmsley
Cc: x3d at web3d.org; X3D Graphics public mailing list
Subject: Re: [x3d] Agenda; improved support for specification scenes in X3D
Basic Examples archives

[cc: x3d-public for possible general interest]

Roy, here are my inputs for this week's working-group teleconference.
Apologies for not being able to attend this morning.

The X3D Example Archives have been improved to allow linking of meta tags in
scenes that are created as specification examples.

Thumbnail images have also been added to each directory entry to make
perusing them easier.  These are created by Xj3D in offline-render mode and
now are produced as an automated part of the build process.  All of the X3D
example archives have been updated to include these thumbnail images in each
chapter directory.

For example specification directories please see

VRML 97 Specification
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/Vrml97Specification

X3D Specifications
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/X3dSpecifications/

with our most recent scene of interest

Triangle Strip Set Figure
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/X3dSpecifications/#TriangleS
tripSetFigure
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/X3dSpecifications/TriangleSt
ripSetFigure.x3d
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/X3dSpecifications/TriangleSt
ripSetFigure.html
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/X3dSpecifications/TriangleSt
ripSetFigure.json  :)
  
Scene excerpts:
<meta name='specificationSection' content='X3D Abstract Specification, Part
1: Architecture and base components, Topic 11.4.14 TriangleStripSet'/> <meta
name='specificationUrl'
content='http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/c
omponents/rendering.html#TriangleStripSet'/>

Snapshots attached.  For the TSS examples: blue version is
IndexedTriangleStripSet, grey version is original spec TriangleStripSet
example.

It will now be easier to keep track of our specification examples over the
long-term.  As with other X3D examples these are under version control, and
so keeping a history of changes & reasons is also automatic.

all the best, Don
-- 
Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br       brutzman at nps.edu
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X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman