[OSGeo-Discuss] Augmented Reality working group?

[Markus Müller]

Hi,

>>>> ian>>>>
> Ola,
>
>>
>> Just some remarks on OGC Web Services and 3D: the approach with the
>> highest probability of becoming an OGC standard is Web Terrain
>> Service,
> Could you explain this statement.Why is this so?

because in OGC it was decided, that work on WTS would be finished first
and only afterwards W3DS will be worked on.

regards

Markus

>
> On the standards side there is X3D[1] from the Web3D Consortium, and
> the standards which build on it: GeoVRML[2] for specifying large,
> outdoor scenes, and H-Anim[3] for humanoid animation.  X3D is the
> re-working of VRML in XML, and while VRML has a bad rep for being
> inconsistently implemented, it still presents one of the lower barriers
> to entry of the 3D standards.
> By using XML for 3D you also get access to the standard XML DOM for
> manipulations and animation (which can be good or bad, depending on
> your feelings about the DOM). More powerful scripting can be done with
> Python, which has python-visual (on Debian and derivatives)
>
> user at host:$apt-get install python-visual
>
> which is a 3D graphics module for Python.
> If you need to do 3D beyond what VPython provides,
> but you don't care about the XML aspect of SVG, there quite a number of
> tools for 3D which have Python bindings.  The grand-daddy of them all
> is PyOpenGL[4], which gives you complete access to the native OpenGL
> API (an absolute beast, but it does the job).  The PyOpenGL project
> also has a subproject, OpenGLContext[5], which is a learning
> environment for OpenGL, much more accessible than raw OpenGL (closer to
> VPython), and has a tool for importing VRML documents.
>
> Other 3D Libraries with Python bindings include VTK[6],
> CrystalSpace[7], Blender[8], and on the commercial front the Poser[9]
> character animation program (version 5) is scriptable with Python.
>
> There is also the H3D API, a GPL (open source) licensed software
> development platform for multi-sensory applications. H3D API uses X3D
> and OpenGL and is the only X3D engine which support Python scripting as
> far as I know. [10]
>
> [1] Extensible 3D Graphics
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d.html
>
> [2] Geographical Data in VRML
> http://www.geovrml.org/
>
> [3] Specification for a standard humanoid
> http://www.h-anim.org/Specifications/H-Anim1.1/
>
> [4] The Python OpenGL Binding
> http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/
>
> [5] A Learning Environment for PyOpenGL and Python 2.2.x
> http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/context/index.html
>
> [6] The Visualization Toolkit
> http://www.vtk.org/
>
> [7] CrystalSpace game development kit
> http://crystal.sourceforge.net/drupal/
>
> [8] Blender 3D
> http://www.blender3d.com/
>
> [9] Poser 5 Character Animation Solution
> http://www.curiouslabs.com/
>
> [10] http://www.h3d.org/
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>>>> return [type for type in types if type not in types_to_exclude]
> If you can see the beauty, then Python got you
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