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Re: [tlug] VRML model: superceded by X3D?

Hi,

> Flash doesn't provide hardware accelerated graphics, VRML/X3D does. I wouldn't use Flash for anything heavy with 3D.

Flash 10 does and it's not even that bad. VRML/X3D (they are the same thing except the format) only specifies the format, so it's up to the implementation to provide HW acceleration. X3D breaks down very quickly on large scenes despite any acceleration (I actually think the format is pretty bad).

I think vrml/x3d are dead now. Java3D never even caught on. As Johan said, your best bet is WebGL and its related technologies like O3D or Unity3D (looking forward to the pluginless release).

That said, nothing stops anyone from implementing a vrml/x3d viewer on top of WebGL - and actually khronos has one [1] - but I think COLLADA has a much better chance of becoming the universal scene format with lots of modelling tools and both O3D and Papervision supporting it.

Zaki

2010/5/26 Johan Berntsson <johan@example.com>

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
>> I like the scene-graph model of vrml/x3d but I don't think this format
>> has a future. ...
>
> I remember doing a VRML project when it was shiny new, in about 1996. I
> found it a bit clunky and thought it didn't have a future. I'm surprised
> people are still talking about it, so maybe I was wrong... but actually
> I think it was superseded by Flash. (Though Steve Jobs and a few VRML
> die-hards might still be in denial :-)

Flash doesn't provide hardware accelerated graphics, VRML/X3D does. I
wouldn't use Flash for anything heavy with 3D.

/Johan

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