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X3D Innovators and Siggraph X3D Sponsors already confirmed to speak are:
- Dr. Donald Brutzman, Director, Naval Postgraduate School
- Mr. Alan Hudson, President, Yumetech and Web3D President
- Mr. Ola Odegard, General Manager, Octaga along with Mr. Thomas Waadeland
- Mr. Tony Parisi, President & CEO, Media Machines
- Mr. Peter Schickel, CEO, BitManagement Gmd
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Dear Colleague,
We are delighted to invite you to join us with the 3D graphics industry's leaders at the Siggraph 2006 Convention (31 July-03 August 2006), in historic Boston, Massachusetts.
Web3D will not only have an exhibit booth but we are also sponsoring an exhibitors' tech talk for the first time to excite, educate and engage you in the latest X3D developments, especially awesome content - - all new in 2006!
The Siggraph Web3D Tech Talk will focus on the following X3D themes:
X3D: The 3D Solution for Web, Documents, and Real-Time Applications
Be sure to visit us in Booth 223 and the Web3D Tech Talk on Wednesday August 2nd from 3:30 - 5:30 PM in Exhibit Hall A to see timely and awe-inspiring demonstrations of X3D in action such as demonstrations of X3D used in the real-time delivery of emerging web based applications for science, business, entertainment and infotainment!
Also not to be missed will be demo's of real-time delivery systems on mobile platforms, as a plug-in for interactive 3D within Adobe Acrobat, and as a vital component of visualization toolkits, open source 3D content development tools, and the visualization of geographic infornmation including the new KML to X3D translator and more!
So come and see the latest real-world applications and content, and find out just how useful X3D can be for your 3D graphic needs!
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The X3D standard has evolved over 10 years while other 3D standards have come and gone. Use of X3D is growing with content and applications from a variety of sectors and across a variety of hardware platforms. X3D is turning out to be not only viable; it also has a vibrant, dynamic, and innovative community of content and application developers who see this standard as the ideal format for archival, real-time 3D graphics. See the latest real-world applications and content, and find out just how useful X3D can be for your 3D graphic needs.
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Invited Presenters
Mr. David Arendash, Mr. Aaron Bergstrom, Mr. Mark Falash, Mr. Thomas Forsell, Mr. Robert Lansdale, Mr. Franck Kolb, Mr. Douglas Murphy, Mr. Carlos Silva, Mr. Edward Simms, Mr. Scooter Willis and Mr. Barrett Shiff
Hosted by Mr. Tony Parisi, Mr. Peter Schickel and Mr. Alan Hudson
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The Web3D Consortium is a member-funded industry consortium committed to the creation and deployment of open, royalty-free standards that enable the communication of real-time 3D across applications, networks, and XML web services. The Consortium works closely with the ISO, MPEG and W3C standardization bodies. All Consortium members are empowered to participate in and contribute to Consortium specifications before public deployment, and are able to network with some of the leading experts in Web3D technology to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications.
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On behalf of the Web3D Consortium, we look forward to meeting with you in Boston.
Kind regards,
Rita Turkowski
Executive Director
Web3D Consortium
Alan Hudson
Web3D President & Member of the Board
Yumetech President
"San Francisco" city developed by Planet 9 Studios. ©Planet 9 Studios 2006
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Bitmanagement Software GmbH, whose logo is "do IT in 3D," truly summarizes where their heart and soul lie. Come and see Bitmanagement's new web and mobile based solutions to help you visualize your content and data in 3D using X3D. From factory planning, to CAD, to 3D E-shopping, Bitmanagement surely has a solution that will interest you. Be sure not to miss their new mobile avatar technology! In addition, as Web3D booth sponsor, Bitmanagement will discuss and display demos in detail in our booth to show how its 3D technology enables the most realtime 3D content to be viewed in exceptionally high rendering quality, both on the web and in stereoscopic display.
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Octaga will present Adobe PDF support for X3D done in conjunction with Yumetech and Xj3D technologies. They will present X3D applications from the oil and gas industry. All are highly commercial projects, and in daily use within the companies. The applications are used for marketing, sales, training, operations and maintenance. An example is FMC Technologies, that for the third year, are using Octaga Panorama (curved large screen, multiple PCs and projectors) for presenting their products at the international Oil & Gas conventions.
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Media Machines will be demonstrating web-based entertainment and e-commerce applications based on their award-winning FLUX(TM) player, a high-performance open source X3D plugin for web browsers. Media Machines will also highlight its groundbreaking development platform that includesFlux Studio, an affordable authoring and publishing solution, andAJAX3D(TM), a Javascript programming library for deploying industrial-strength applications and online virtual worlds in web browsers.
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Other projects and speakers:
Protein X3D (University of Florida PhD project):
A presentation on using XML PDB data and XML X3D to build ribbon models PDF. The key element is that once I figured out the hermite function for doing the nice splines along data points it took about a 1,000 lines of additional java code to build a X3D ribbon model. The XML PDB data is loaded into a DOM object and then using XPATH the data elements of interest are retrieved. A few helper functions for generating XML X3D objects and it came together nicely.
The challenge with doing statistical modeling in protein data sequences is trying to understand how the statistical 2D data relates to 3D structures. Using information theory to detect co-evolving pairs in a protein family which basically indicates that if one amino acid mutates then a neighbor in 3D space may also need to mutate to preserve function or structure of the protein. By detecting co-evolving pairs you can predict that two distant amino acids need to be close in 3D space which provides important information about protein folds in proteins that have not been solved via X-Ray crystallography or NMR.
A variety of tools exist to view protein structures but are very chemistry centric and use custom code for rendering 3D models. This results in very large code libraries and increased difficulty in adding new features or visualization techniques. It then becomes very easy to add visual information related to different statistical calculations to help reveal relationships in the data.
Okino:
One "small" project which has taken 7 months is a complete 64-bit port of PolyTrans and every module.
NASA Langley:
This work was performed for NASA Langley Research Center as part of an agency wide effort known as Integrated Modeling and Simulation (IM&S). One goal of IM&S is to deliver advanced strategic analysis capabilities to support the Vision for Space Exploration. Web enabled distributed simulation and visualization are key components of this capability, and the Lunar Orbit application is an early example. This application was used to communicate the results of an orbital mechanics analysis to engineers, scientists and managers participating in a lunar architecture study. Opportunities to apply this example application and others like it are foreseen both for continuing work at NASA and the commercial aerospace industry as we get closer to our goal of reaching the moon and Mars.
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The Xj3D Toolkit is an open source API developed by Yumetech, Inc. for developing a X3D/VRML 97 compliant applications. Yumetech will demonstrate how to use X3D in your applications using two real world examples developed using Xj3D. The first example is Savage Studio: a component of a simulation system for testing port security. This application will show geospatially aligned virtual environments and using X3D to display the results of simulations using clustered supercomputing. The Second example is the iLoc system being developed in collaboration with NASA Ames Research. iLoc demonstrates how X3D can be incorporated into a multiuser networked system such as Eclipse.
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EDF is a leading France-based energy company. Its R&D entity will show how the ISO X3D standard is used and deployed safely and securely for more than 100,000 Windows and/or Linux computers without additional cost demonstrating how virtual reality can be an everyday web service for CAD and Scientific Visualization. X3D, X3Db, Xj3D, java and java webstart technologies are the key to this breakthrough.
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L-3 Communications Link Simulation & Training (LINK) has been investing significant resources into the application of commercial open source technologies to develop a simulation based training enterprise infrastructure. Efforts to date have included open source solutions such DIS XML and Xj3D sponsored by NPS, Yumetech and the Web3D Consortium. The over arching integration approach involves a common web based training enterprise based on commercial web based technologies, standards and open sources solutions with the Web3D Consortium proving to be a valuable resource for such solutions. These technologies are currently being utilized to demonstrate UAV training system concepts. L-3 Link and University of Central Florida (UCF) are currently working to expand cooperative development based on open source solutions. UCF has an extensive research and educational experience in autonomous vehicle systems. In particular, researchers at UCF have developed innovative results in the areas of real-time trajectory planning, cooperative behaviors, and control designs for an autonomous system consisting of a group of homogeneous and heterogeneous vehicles that operate in a dynamic and uncertain environment. The UCF algorithms and Link Web Based Infrastructure are being implemented to make distributed and web-based UAV training interactive, realistic, and intelligent.
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NPS supervises multiple sponsored research projects and tools including anti-terrorist harbor defense, underwater robot visualization, human motion capture, an X3D-Edit authoring tool, online X3D example archives, provides X3D education, X3D interoperability for shared visualization, and the X3D Earth initiative. Our graduates go on to manage major government and industry programs. Through multiple open-source exemplar projects we demonstrate to government, military and international partners 3D can integrate both time-critical visualization systems and regular enterprise document life cycles. Collaboration partnerships with our Web3D industry colleagues is a critical to the success of these many efforts.
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Demicron will demo their NASA's 3D Guide to the Galaxy. Demicron's web 3D tool WireFusion is used by NASA to help us understand the primary features of the Milky Way, and to better understand the massive scale of the galaxy relative to our own tiny earth.
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Flickertail's RawKee is an open source (LGPL) X3D plug-in designed for use with AutoDesk's Maya line of 3D visualization and animation software: Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited. The purpose of RawKee is to export Maya's 3D data as an X3D file. RawKee offers scripting and a complete X3D authoring environment through RawKee's Interaction, Character, and Animation editors. RawKee supports Maya versions 6.0 - 7.0 (WinXP/2000, Mac OSX, and Linux) and 4.5 - 5.0 (WinXP/2000). RawKee development is directed by the Archaeology Technologies Laboratory (ATL) at North Dakota State University (NDSU). The ATL conducts research into the use of web-based 3D graphics for use in archaeology, historical, and human heritage preservation. The RawKee plug-in project was begun under a grant awarded to the ATL by AutoDesk through its Research Donation Program (ARDP) and would not have been possible without it. The ARDP is open to academic institutions, and it seeks to "catalyze experimentation and research in computer graphics, human computer interaction, and compelling digital visual experiences.
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A haptics focused company, Sense Graphics will present their H3D API which is an open source project, though commercial licensing possibilities also exist. The project is funded by SenseGraphics AB. H3D API was developed to stimulate application development of haptic (touch) enabled VR applications such as medical simulation, medical visualisation and entertainment applications. SenseGraphics sees an enormous commercial potential in such VR applications.
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Vcom3D uses the X3D and H-Anim specifications to create highly interactive 3D Web-based instruction.
Vcom3D will demo their Vcom3D’s Scenario Editor to create control flow for interactive courses. They will also show Vcommunicator Studio, hich allows realistic virtual human behaviors to be authored rapidly by combining individual actions selected from a library of behaviors.
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