Web3D
Web3D was initially the idea to fully display and navigate Web sites using 3D. By extension, the term now refers to all interactive 3D content which are embedded into web pages html, and that we can see through a web browser.
Web3D Technologies usually require to install a Web 3D viewer (plugin) to see this kind of content.
Nowadays many formats and tools are available:
- 3DMLW
- Adobe Shockwave
- Java 3D
- JOGL
- Lateral Visions 3D Web
- LWJGL
- Nova
- O3D
- ShiVa
- Unity
- Virtools
- VRML
- Web3D Consortium
- WebGL
- WireFusion
- X3D (extending VRML)
They are mainly distinguished by 4 criteria:
- Simplicity (Automatic Installation, rates facilities already high)
- Compatibility (Windows, Mac, Unix ..)
- Quality (Performances, see Frames per second, and indirectly display quality)
- Interactivity (Depending on the solutions, their programming opportunities, the creators of content have more or less freedom in the creation of interactivity.)
See also
External links
- Lateral Visions Lateral Visions Software Company : 3D Web specialist and platform developers.
- TDT3D European 3D Community : specialized in computer graphics and real-time 3D rendering (updated regularly).
- WEB3D-FR French Web 3D Community.
- Catalog of Web3D software
- Paul Festa (2002-02-26). "Bringing 3D to the Web". CNET News.