Web3D Working Group meetings at SIGGRAPH 2012 8 3 AM Minutes
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Minutes of meeting held 3 August 2012 8 AM PDT
Attendees
- Hyokwang Lee, PartDB
- Don Brutzman, NPS
- Vince Marchetti, KShell
- Nathan Nikotan, CSUDH graduate
- Tim Beyer, CSUDH graduate
- Mitch Williams [1]
People interested in the CAD Working Group are asked to refresh their entries on the X3D CAD People page where we summarize our interests.
Topics
- See Birds of a Feather Agenda CAD_BoF_2012
- Can we get Peter Schickel or someone from Bit Management discuss new BS Contact Browser?
- Players supporting CAD can be found on the Player support for X3D components page. Players reporting support are BS Contact, Instant Player, Octaga VS, Swirl, and Xj3d. Can we help OpenVRML and view3dscene go from partial to full support? X3DOM does not appear to support CAD Geometry. X3DOM is open source and some ambitious person may be able to impement the Javascript addition to X3DOM to support CAD nodes.
- Tools that don't fully support CAD Geometry (FreeWRL, H3DView, OpenVRML, view3dscene) may use the CAD Prototypes implementation or other open source - these nodes are pretty easy to implement.
- Issue for future discussion: Is there a difference in how feasible it is to implement the proposed changes to X3DPart/X3DFace nodes in Prototypes among the 3 options we have recently discussed [2]?
- Xj3D Source
- Xj3d Site [3] is back up, after a 10 day down period; include web access to subversion repository.
- We discussed next steps for Xj3d source
- Steps a-d (restoration of site for 2 months) have been accomplished -- Thanks to Alan Hudson
- Option e, moving Subversion repository to SourceForge will be straightforward -- use subversion archive file to move to a new Subversion server.
- Option f, converting to git version control, and moving to GitHub, will require some careful consideration. It can be a steep learning curve for developers to transition from subversion to git. Conversion from a subversion repository to git can be automated, but it will be difficult to go back to subversion from git