Researchers at the Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) Group at RWTH Aachen University use X3DOM to realize a collaborative 3D viewer for teaching anatomy.

Aim of the project is the creation, deployment and utilization of a pool of digital 3D anatomic models for accessing them anywhere and anytime over the Web using a standard Web browser.

You can give it a try by checking out the prototype!

We are proud and glad to announce the release of X3DOM 1.7 – as always, thanks to all contributors that made this great achievement possible!

Besides our new, fresh home page, these are the most important changes:

• CommonSurfaceShader now also supports object-space normal maps (in addition to already available tangent-space normal maps) – demo here
• ExternalGeometry node now has a multi-field for the data URL (of type MFString), multiple URLs can be specified as fallback. This is fully backwards compatible with old scenes that specify only a single string.
• Basic TriangleSet implementation, interesting for testing non-indexed rendering (thanks to Yvonne Jung, Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
• alphaClipThreshold attribute in Appearance node to adapt the threshold for X3DOM’s alpha test (for textures with transparency)
• Improvements in geospatial components (support for easting_first, thanks to Andreas Plesch, Harvard University).
• If a viewpoint gets transformed, its center of rotation now gets transformed accordingly (thanks to Andreas Plesch, Harvard University).
• Runtime documentation made available (see here)
• New tutorial about runtime configuration (see here)
• New tutorial about the experimental SSAO implementation (see here)
• Some smaller documentation updates
• Several fixes (thanks to Ander Arbelaiz, Andreas Plesch and Yvonne Jung)

With the VolumeRC page, X3DOM developers at vicomtech have created a gallery of volume renderings, using the X3DOM volume rendering component.

Check out the demos, which include switching between different volume rendering styles and interactive editing of transfer functions.

3D-ICONS is another noteable example of a cultural heritage project that uses X3DOM technology.

The models have not been converted to X3DOM’s optimized binary geometry format yet, so the transmission currently takes some time.
However, after loading you will get rewarded with really beautiful detailed views of architectural cultural heritage objects!