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Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:14:00 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Andy Lynch wrote:
> > Well, in the interests of sharing, as this community does so well, here's the
> > basics of a simple LDraw viewer that I wrote in the Processing language about a
> > year and a half ago. It is by no means complete, but it will display small
> > models (if you edit the source to load the model, right near the beginning of
> > the main code... no way to pick from a listing) Processing is so friendly that
> > I was able to build this basic viewer in just a week or two, then life jumped in
> > and took over all my time again, as usual.
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> The neat thing about Processing is that since it is based on Java it is possible
> to export Processing programs (excluding some functions) as cross-platform
> applets that can be embedded in web pages.
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> So, what Andy has created is the basis for an online LDraw viewer! One possible
> application of this is to allow people without LDraw installations to
> nevertheless view models in 3d using their browsers. To illustrate the
> feasibility of this I made a quick hack online version of the code that displays
> a fully-inlined model (so no part library is required):
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> http://anoved.net/files/alvlite-test/
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> I look forward to seeing how this progresses.
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> Jim
Here it looks very promising.
But what will be the loading time if I have larger models?
I would be very interested in this kind of app as it will make things much more
easy to display models to the webside visitor (see my "personal OMR" at
http://mikeheide.kilu.de).
No more create pictures and put them in the webpage. Only this tiny little
thing.
cu
mikeheide
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 | | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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| (...) That is the key question. I have not tried a larger model yet (it takes some preparation first to inline the model). I think I first may try to address the question of how to efficiently enable part library access for the embedded viewer. (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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| (...) The neat thing about Processing is that since it is based on Java it is possible to export Processing programs (excluding some functions) as cross-platform applets that can be embedded in web pages. So, what Andy has created is the basis for (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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