Thanks Len. We've been working steadily on this as part of a large research project in mining equipment automation for the past 5 years. Tony Parisi has been providing invaluable support with Flux and for our Java SAI implementation. We actually run a standalone Java client that runs Flux (ActiveX Control) in a Java panel. This is a heavy duty application which monitors a machine that spans 250 meters in width (located 140 meters underground) and cuts over 3000 tons of material in an 8 hour shift. We embed the mining equipment model within a geological model that integrates many individual X3D PROTOs that we instantiate dynamically as the user requires ie., no large monolithic models to initially load (see attached image). The X3D scenegraph and the SAI is excellent for doing this. Soon we'll be monitoring 3D models in real-time from 3 different mine sites in Australia. We're going to set up a small control center at our research site that will enable us to display the models on a large projection screen and switch between them. You really can produce high quality visualisation for industry with X3D and drive it dynamically from external sources. It would be great to see if there are other examples like this. We've been doing this since the days of Cosmoplayer and Netscape4, but I haven't seen too many industrial applications. The SAI and EXTERNPROTOs are our life blood if this arena. Con. -----Original Message----- From: Len Bullard [mailto:cbullard@hiwaay.net] Sent: Friday, 8 December 2006 2:40 PM To: Caris, Con (E&M, QCAT) Cc: www-vrml@web3d.org; x3d-public@web3d.org Subject: RE: [x3d-public] LoadSensors: create via SAI? Monitor an ExternProto? Aside from the thread, nice jpeg. That's got to be an impressive 3D system. Intergraph's mechanical folks should see that. len From: owner-x3d-public@web3d.org [mailto:owner-x3d-public@web3d.org] On We also rely heavily on the SAI for our control applications which stream real-time sensor data, from large scale underground mining equipment, into our 3D worlds - see attached image. Data is streamed from over a thousand kilometers through secure VPNs (24 x 7) into these models which we monitor remotely. It's important to know that the EXTERNPROTOs have loaded completely before we can start piping data into the Transforms (via the SAI) of the model.
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