[x3d-public] build a 3D Open Directory from DMOZ?

[John Carlson]

Moved to “Subject: 3D Examples Metaverse.”

The idea would be to bring open directory into a metaverse.

But i do think we should work with our own data first.

John

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:52 AM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’ve had a few more thoughts on this:
>
> Create a “3D Mall” view for each level.  Look for a 3D File Explorer view.
>
> Create an “Apollonean Gasket” view—fractal circles.   Not unlike JSON-LD
> view from some time ago.  Provide zooming like VIPR programming language.
>
> Create a geospatial view (Patrick Cozzi, Clement Igonet), Cesium.
>
> Create a celestial view.(Sanden)
>
> Create a forest/net/graph view, based on existing:
> https://coderextreme.net/x3dschema/
>
> Create a Smalltalk class browser view.
>
> Do something with web browser view.  Maybe WebVOWL.
>
> Provide an interface common to all views and an interface common to all
> models and an interface common to all controllers.
>
> Create or find file system model.
>
> Create or find modelling system model.
>
> Create or find planning system model.
>
> Create or find programming language model.  Either Abstract Syntax Tree
> (AST) or intermediate representation (IR) from compilers.
>
> Do something with DOM.  Perhaps use DOM as frontend to scenegraph views.
> As far as we can, use DOM as AST or IR.
>
> I’m hoping Christoph Valentin might contribute.
>
> I know there’s a lot of work so perhaps we can work out mappings from DOM
> (model) to scenegraph (view?) (Don is probably most qualified).
>
> I would l Iike to work on the model side of things and maybe a bit of view
> stuff.
>
> Specifically, I’d like to create a DOM to either render 3d models in SysML
> or other programming language. (I know there are some out there for UML)
>
> If the semantics folks want to add ideas here, cool.
>
> But first, I’d like to lay out some interfaces for model,view,controller
> of top-most triple.
>
> Perhaps someone can recommend Croquet?
>
> Christoph?
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:38 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone created 3D online structures from
>> https://dmoz-odp.org/ (Open Directory?)
>>
>> It should be possible with current WWW technology. We’re not trying to
>> displace the WWW.
>>
>> Could we collect geospatial and/or temporal data and present it as well?
>>
>> Can we come up with a better presentation than earth or maps?  Something
>> more exotic?
>>
>> We were thinking of a forest of trees, perhaps swaying until the mouse
>> gets near.
>>
>> What Shapes or geometry might people suggest?
>>
>> I’m imagining someone did this 25 years ago?
>>
>> I’m going to look for an archive of data rather than scraping.
>>
>> John
>>
>
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