[x3d-public] X3D Examples Metaverse

[John Carlson]

More thoughts.  X3DJSAIL already provides excellent facilities for
converting XML to scenegraph (X3D and HTML).

We could add “3D malls” of items
in the X3D examples folders instead of just providing thumbnail images.

An idea would be to complement existing HTML  with SVG and more X3D.   I’m
imagining some kind of map of the examples in SVG with annotations where
each example is.

We could create example metaverse or metaverses for each collection in the
x3d example archive.

In other words, let’s bring our examples into a metaverse.

 Note:  I recommend 1 metaverse per collection folder.

Either Celestial, Geospatial, or Shopping would be ok.

John

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:52 AM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’ve had a few more thoughts on this:
>
> Create a “3D Mall” view for each level.  Look for a 3D File Explorer view.
>
> Create an “Apollonean Gasket” view—fractal circles.   Not unlike JSON-LD
> view from some time ago.  Provide zooming like VIPR programming language.
>
> Create a geospatial view (Patrick Cozzi, Clement Igonet), Cesium.
>
> Create a celestial view.(Sanden)
>
> Create a forest/net/graph view, based on existing:
> https://coderextreme.net/x3dschema/
>
> Create a Smalltalk class browser view.
>
> Do something with web browser view.  Maybe WebVOWL.
>
> Provide an interface common to all views and an interface common to all
> models and an interface common to all controllers.
>
> Create or find file system model.
>
> Create or find modelling system model.
>
> Create or find planning system model.
>
> Create or find programming language model.  Either Abstract Syntax Tree
> (AST) or intermediate representation (IR) from compilers.
>
> Do something with DOM.  Perhaps use DOM as frontend to scenegraph views.
> As far as we can, use DOM as AST or IR.
>
> I’m hoping Christoph Valentin might contribute.
>
> I know there’s a lot of work so perhaps we can work out mappings from DOM
> (model) to scenegraph (view?) (Don is probably most qualified).
>
> I would l Iike to work on the model side of things and maybe a bit of view
> stuff.
>
> Specifically, I’d like to create a DOM to either render 3d models in SysML
> or other programming language. (I know there are some out there for UML)
>
> If the semantics folks want to add ideas here, cool.
>
> But first, I’d like to lay out some interfaces for model,view,controller
> of top-most triple.
>
> Perhaps someone can recommend Croquet?
>
> Christoph?
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:38 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone created 3D online structures from
>> https://dmoz-odp.org/ (Open Directory?)
>>
>> It should be possible with current WWW technology. We’re not trying to
>> displace the WWW.
>>
>> Could we collect geospatial and/or temporal data and present it as well?
>>
>> Can we come up with a better presentation than earth or maps?  Something
>> more exotic?
>>
>> We were thinking of a forest of trees, perhaps swaying until the mouse
>> gets near.
>>
>> What Shapes or geometry might people suggest?
>>
>> I’m imagining someone did this 25 years ago?
>>
>> I’m going to look for an archive of data rather than scraping.
>>
>> John
>>
>
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