webVis/instant3DHub

Abstract

a) Standard webVis UI elements with Instance Graph (IG) struct-tree views (b) Interactive high quality and secure visualisation via server-based ray-tracing and streaming (c) AR application with client-based composition of multi-buffer views Figure 1: Application examples using webVis / instant3DHub. The platform is able to deliver different kinds of browser-based visualisation applications, such as high-quality large model visualisation, CAD inspection, or augmented reality, while providing a straightforward and expressive tag set and API. AbstractThis paper presents the webVis / instant3DHub platform, which combines a novel Web-Components based framework and a Visual Computing as a Service infrastructure to deliver an interactive 3D data visualisation solution. The system focuses on minimising resource consumption, while maximising the end-user experience. It utilises an adaptive and automated combination of client, server and hybrid visualisation techniques, while orchestrating transmission, caching and rendering services to deliver structural and semantically complex data sets on any device class and network architecture. The API and Web Component framework allow the application developer to compose and manipulate complex data setups with a simple set of commands inside the browser, without requiring knowledge about the underlying service infrastructure, interfaces and the fully automated processes. This results in a new class of interactive applications, built around a canvas for real-time visualisation of massive data sets.

Rectangular Selection of Components in Large 3D Models on the Web

“…Similar web platforms with support for industrial size 3D models include solutions such as Autodesk 360 based on Autodesk Large Model Viewer which in turn is based on three.js, Bentley Web Navigator based on CesiumJS, and Instant 3D Hub based on a commercial version of X3DOM [Behr et al 2015;Mouton et al 2014], c.f. [Behr et al 2018].…”