Commenting on: Web3D Symposium Wrap-up
I’ve been back from Italy for over a week now already, and I am still combing thru the presentations and papers, emailing with attendees, sorting thru some awesome photos of Perugia and nearby locales, debating when/where future symposiums should be held, so much so that I’d have to say I feel as if I have not yet left Italy! At least not mentally. The body is in California, but my brain and soul are still in Italy…
The symposium was inspiring to me in that it has grown (doubled in fact) since last year and we had…
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Back to my symposium wrap-up: I finally had a chance to sit down and read the papers and look over the demos as well. I was particularly impressed by the wavelet compression approach to planar and spherical terrain visualization by the Sardinia based CRS4 group. Also on the GIS or X3D-earth side of Web3D, I was impressed by the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil paper on rendering a virtual city environment similar to San Paolo in 1911 for a cultural heritage project. On a pure “advance the state-of-the-art” side of X3D, I enjoyed playing with the realistic lighting and rendering extensions of the mixed reality/augmented reality work of the Avalon/Composer/InstantPlayer project from Fraunhofer.
Whew, that’s a mouthful! Sorry I do not really know the project’s official name yet. In any case, I’m still awaiting word from ACM as to whether we can archive the proceedings or not but I will post here when I hear more. Rita
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