[www-vrml] Physical properties for Rendering and Light Simulation

["Lars O. Grobe" <grobe@gmx.net>]

Hi,

some time ago, there was a project started (by Philippe Bekaert et al) 
to extend vrml97 for physical correct models as needed in (light) 
simulation. This is a quite mature project now (PhBRML, XRML). Is there 
anyone working on something similar, but x3d-based? I am just wondering 
because there are existing rendering-languages in xml, which could more 
easily interface to such an x3d-based format (one of these is my slowly 
developing xslt-set to get the radiance scene language represented in 
xml, www.sourceforge.net/projects/radianceml). And I would really like 
to keep models in x3d, using it not only as an output (one-way) format 
for browsers.

For those involved in vrml-2 vs x3d discussions...: I want an 
xml-format, as I like to use xslt's and have a lot of other 
xml-formatted data. Of course I could use the existing vrml-97 based 
solution just for the model.

CU Lars.
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Lars O. Grobe
grobe@gmx.net

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