[x3d-public] Search by 3d model

[John Carlson]

I view there being 3 times of hypermedia: Movies, Text and Shapes (3D).  I do not see why searching by shape is not acceptable. For example, there is, based on looking at Masaki Aono’s site:




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From: Leonard Daly
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 4:57 PM
To: x3d-public at web3d.org
Subject: Re: [x3d-public] Search by 3d model

John,

Browsers do not support plugins anymore. You can have an add-on, but the processing is not the same. 

The site (http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/search.html) does not say, but I suspect that their database is rather outdated now because they don't have recent formats (sketch-up, FBX, glTF). I am not sure that the engine would be of much use. The research work they are doing might be, but it does not appear to be publicly implemented at this time.

I don't think a scene graph would be a good way to go. The same visual model may be represented in significantly different scene graphs. I still my original suggestion of keyword and/or image search would be best.

Leonard Daly



Okay! I am imagining searching by 3D mesh or unnamed shape/volume, I guess.  That is, something that won’t be confused by colors.
 
I think the Princeton site will be perfect if I can get it going with Java or OpenJDK.  I am looking for a more up-to-date site, without the dependency of installing Java (and Oracle’s new license). Thus I am looking for an OpenJDK browser plugin for Chrome (or other) on Windows 10. I don’t really want to step down a rabbit hole.

I’m now guessing I should be looking at either semantic network search or social network search for a potential solution.
 
Search by scenegraph?
 
John
 
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From: Leonard Daly
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 9:21 AM
To: x3d-public at web3d.org
Subject: Re: [x3d-public] Search by 3d model
 
Not sure what you are trying to do here John. All good websites will supply sufficient meta-tags for the model to allow a search by text. If you are trying to find a model based on the look of one you have, try using a screen shot. Google's image search is pretty good.
 
Leonard Daly
 
 
Can someone direct me to a “search by 3d model” engine which doesn’t require java in the browser?  Thanks 



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