The IGD-department of industrial applications teamed with Volkswagen and CST to build the first CAE prototypes on X3DOM for the visualization of simulation data. These application prototypes have a huge potential to ease the communication of simulation results dramatically. The scientific visualization framework iFX provides now an exporter to x3dom to embed CAE-data into websites.

The NMY are utilizing x3dom for their online touchLab product presentation.

NMY touch-table

Just the beginning but already looks really promising.

Another show-case from Dennis Ippel which is not just nice but also shows a limitation of the current implementation.

Pixelfaces in x3dom

If the user does not give any normals the system creates always smooth normals for every vertices. This is (almost) right for the support Level 2 we proposed  but this will also irritate people. So we  really should increase the support Level to 4 and fully support any creaseAngle value. There is already a ticket for this

Dennis Ippel was also at the WebGL BOF last week in LA and really liked the declarative 3D and HTML integration approach we provided with X3DOM.

He promised to do some expermiments with x3dom and already has a Mutal Twitter Friends show-case on his blog

Visualising Mutual Twitter Friends

We love his conclusion so far: “My first impression of X3DOM is that it’s very easy to work with. Specifying the scene through XML nodes is actually very convenient“

We meet Francesco Di Cerbo, from the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy,  last week at the Web3D-conference in LA. He presented in his talk a new e-lerning system called  DIEL which uses x3dom.

user-interface for the DIEL e-learning system

DIEL is an extension to an e-learning platform that provides new paradigms of user interactivity and data representation in a web-based real-time environment. DIEL aims at creating a dynamic and interaction-friendly graphical interface for learning communities.

The system uses a client server architecture, where the client side is based on a HTML5/X3DOM, and the server side is implemented as a standalone PHP application, embedded into the open source course management system Moodle.

Combining X3DOM and AJAX patterns, it is possible to obtain a live graphical representation of a virtual environment, where users can interact with each other or with available resources. A server-push mechanism (using Orbited) has been used to synchronize the different clients. The user can even upload their avatars and other resources as standard X3D datasets.

https://code.inf.unibz.it/projects/diel/

Another great “third-party” show-case. This one is from Steve Smith. There are some texture-issues and therefore it only works in Firefox 4.0 beta right now. The scene is Bristol City Harbour although the scenario fictitious. It is being prepared as a proof of principal for using x3dom/web3d to represent thematic data on climate change in cities.

climate-data

The model uses 25cm aerial photography draped on a much thinned LIDAR digital terrain model provided by the British National Rivers Authority (NRA). The overall project is : Suburban Neighbourhood Adaptation for a Changing Climate (SNACC) at the University of the West of England.

Nikita Mattar put his facebook FriendGraph3D online.

facebook friendgraph in x3dom

The interaction is still very limited (there are some basic feature still missing in x3dom ) but this a nice showcase for animation done with the follower node-component.

New example which uses an paraview-export in combination with html-events for picking. The actual method will change the next days but it shows already how this could work.

More example and a simple tutorial for paraview-exports are coming very soon.

Not yet hosted somewhere but coming soon. A Facebook app utilizing x3dom to visualize your friends network in 3D.

There is only a video right now but will be released soon. Developed by Nikitia Matter from the University of Bielefeld.

Another external showcase. The 3D-Coform Consortium uses X3DOM to visualize 3D reconstruction and scanning results.

3D-Coform data

Nice showcase which uses jquery-Lightboxes to popup the 3D-Viewer.

The wowmodelviewer includes now code to export static and animated X3D models.

WOW model rendered with X3DOM

You can even export directly to an XHTML/X3DOM page which includes the X3D model.

No direct content link but a nice video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16P6_e7VUmw

External Showcase from Wolfram Kresse.

Solar System Simular

It’s a Solor System Simulation. Very nice. More feature coming soon.

OK, no issues (beside the DOM Level 2 Events) with the current WebKit builds anymore. You can freely update and enjoy the extra speed you get on our Mac again!