XML3D and Xflow: Combining Declarative 3D for the Web with Generic Data Flows

Abstract

Researchers have combined XML3D, which provides declarative, interactive 3D scene descriptions based on HTML5, with Xflow, a language for declarative, high-performance data processing. The result lets Web developers combine a 3D scene graph with data flows for dynamic meshes, animations, image processing, and postprocessing.

3B Görselleştirme Ortamı Olarak Web Tarayıcıları

“…Render quality is at the forefront in XML3D, therefore instead of creating standart libraries with only available material options, it offers users the option to create custom materials [16]. Creating a lightweight scene with meshes, shaders, light sources, and viewpoints through a hierarchical way is possible with XML3D [21]. It provides a unique abstraction to algorithms to create a general 3D scene beyond the web context and is one of the important steps taken in Webbased 3D graphics.…”

Publishing and Consuming 3D Content on the Web: A Survey

“…An approach similar to X3DOM is the XML3D system [175,176], another plug-in-free high-level approach which, instead of embedding an existing framework (X3D) in the browser context (like X3DOM does), tries to extend HTML, maximizing the use of existing features to embed the 3D content in the web page. XML3D uses XHTML and, for intensive online data processing [see, for instance, 104], relies on Xflow [103,105], an "extension" developed to expose system hardware and allowing data-flow programming.…”