Game Development Books
Featured Book
-
Blender Master Class: A Hands-On Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials, and Rendering
By Ben Simonds
Buy from Amazon:
Top Selling Books
-
1. Super Scratch Programming Adventure!:...
By The LEAD Project, Sales Rank #2606 -
2. Blender Master Class: A Hands-On Guid...
By Ben Simonds, Sales Rank #30787 -
3. Introduction to 3D Game Programming w...
By Frank Luna, Sales Rank #43453 -
4. The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing...
By Lee Sheldon, Sales Rank #66255 -
5. Mathematics for 3D Game Programming a...
By Eric Lengyel, Sales Rank #77360 -
6. Unreal Development Kit Game Programmi...
By Rachel Cordone, Sales Rank #124218 -
7. Learn Objective-C on the Mac: For OS...
By Scott Knaster, Waqar Malik, Mark Dalrymple, Sales Rank #139573 -
8. Beginning 3D Game Development with Un...
By Sue Blackman, Sales Rank #150794 -
9. Practical Rendering and Computation w...
By Jason Zink, Matt Pettineo, Jack Hoxley, Sales Rank #231156 -
10. Core HTML5 Canvas: Graphics, Animatio...
By David Geary, Sales Rank #249373
Latest Books
- 1. Blender Master Class: A Hands-On Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials, and Rendering By Ben Simonds
- 2. Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon By Chris Vander Mey
- 3. Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games By The LEAD Project
- 4. Learn Objective-C on the Mac: For OS X and iOS By Scott Knaster, Waqar Malik, Mark Dalrymple
- 5. Core HTML5 Canvas: Graphics, Animation, and Game Development (Core Series) By David Geary
X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology)
 |
By Don Brutzman, Leonard Daly Published May 2007 List Price: Amazon.com Sales Rank: 761,825 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Summary: In the early days of the Web a need was recognized for a language to display 3D objects through a browser. An HTML-like language, VRML, was proposed in 1994 and became the standard for describing interactive 3D objects and worlds on the Web. 3D Web courses were started, several best-selling books were published, and VRML continues to be used today. However VRML, because it was based on HTML, is a stodgy language that is not easy to incorporate with other applications and has been difficult to add features to. Meanwhile, applications for interactive 3D graphics have been exploding in areas such as medicine, science, industry, and entertainment. There is a strong need for a set of modern Web-based technologies, applied within a standard extensible framework, to enable a new generation of modeling & simulation applications to emerge, develop, and interoperate. X3D is the next generation open standard for 3D on the web. It is the result of several years of development by the Web 3D Consortium's X3D Task Group. Instead of a large monolithic specification (like VRML), which requires full adoption for compliance, X3D is a component-based architecture that can support applications ranging from a simple non-interactive animation to the latest streaming or rendering applications. X3D replaces VRML, but also provides compatibility with existing VRML content and browsers. Don Brutzman organized the first symposium on VRML and is playing a similar role with X3D; he is a founding member of the consortium. Len Daly is a professional member of the consortium and both Len and Don have been involved with the development of the standard from the start. Buy it now: |
0 Comments