[x3d-public] announce: X_ITE Playground is available, now supported with X3DOM editor in X3D Examples Archive

John Carlson yottzumm at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 10:47:57 PDT 2023


Great job, guys, time to retire the X3DJSONLD website!  Thanks to Andreas
for the seed which grew to be X3DJSONLD.

John

On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 10:39 AM Brutzman, Donald (Don) (CIV) <
brutzman at nps.edu> wrote:

> X_ITE Playground is an excellent new capability is available that allows
> editing an X3D scene within an HTML web page and immediately seeing results
> rendered by X_ITE.
>
>
>
>    - X_ITE X3D Browser: Step Into The Future
>    - https://create3000.github.io/x_ite
>    - X_ITE is a new 3D JavaScript library entirely written in JavaScript
>    and uses WebGL for 3D rendering. Authors can publish X3D and VRML source
>    online within an HTML5 page with X_ITE that works with Web browsers without
>    prior plugin installation. This gives X3D authors the ability to displays
>    content in 3D, using WebGL 3D graphics technology to display X3D content in
>    several different browsers across several different operating systems.
>    Since X3D is backwardly compatible, X_ITE can also be used as a VRML viewer.
>
>
>
>    - X_ITE Playground
>    - https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/playground
>    - Includes different rendering options (point, wireframe, flat,
>    phong), scaling, etc.  Example screenshot attached.
>    - Rendering changes occur immediately as you edit the model source,
>    super helpful for exploring and debugging.
>
>
>
> This is similar in many ways to the also-excellent X3DOM Editor by Andreas
> Plesch, released earlier this year.
>
>
>
>    - X3DOM editor: Edit X3D code; HelloWorld.x3d
>    - https://andreasplesch.github.io/Library/Viewer/index.html
>    -
>    https://andreasplesch.github.io/Library/Viewer/index.html?url=https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dForAdvancedModeling/HelloWorldScenes/HelloWorld.x3d
>
>
>
> Am thrilled to report that both X_ITE Playground and X3DOM Editor are
> available for thousands of models in our X3D Example Archives, published
> under an Web3D Consortium open-source license.
>
>
>
>    - X3D Resources: X3D Example Archives
>    - The X3D Examples Archives demonstrate how X3D nodes and scenes work.
>    Thousands of scenes are provided in all X3D encodings. You can browse them
>    individually online or download fully complete, separately installable .zip
>    archives.
>    - https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Examples
>
>
>
> For example:
>
>
>
>    - X3D Example Archives: X3D4WA, X3D for Web Authors, Chapter 02
>    Geometry Primitives, Geometry Primitive Nodes White Background
>    -
>    https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter02GeometryPrimitives/GeometryPrimitiveNodesWhiteBackgroundIndex.html
>
>
>
>    - X_ITE Playground,
>    https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/playground/?url=https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter02GeometryPrimitives/GeometryPrimitiveNodesWhiteBackground.x3d
>
>
>
>    - X3DOM editor,
>    https://andreasplesch.github.io/Library/Viewer/index.html?url=https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter02GeometryPrimitives/GeometryPrimitiveNodesWhiteBackground.x3d
>
>
>
> This Web-based approach is a great way to learn about X3D modeling, and to
> check on possible model variations.  It is also a major capability for
> collaboratively checking how the latest-greatest versions of two of our
> major X3D4 players have implemented the X3D specification.  Live online -
> wow, wow, wow, wow.
>
>
>
> Ever modest and insightful, Holger writes:  “The development goes on and
> on and also new ideas arise again and again. We can be curious about the
> future.”
>
>
>
> Have fun with X_ITE Playground!  8)
>
>
>
> …and X3DOM editor too!  8)
>
>
>
> all the best, Don
>
> --
>
> Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br
> brutzman at nps.edu
>
> Watkins 270,  MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA
> +1.831.656.2149
>
> X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics
> https://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman
>
>
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