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Re: Web-based LDraw viewing
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:09:32 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > > In lugnet.cad.dev, Mike Thorn wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The unfortunate thing is that I'm not a very high-tech programmer; I can do
> > > > HTML and some CSS and PHP, but I get lost with C/C++/Java/etc. I'm not
> > > > entirely sure how easy it would be to build something like this (or whether
> > > > it's even possible). So...guess where my first stop is. Bingo.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts, comments?
> > > >
> > > > -Mike
> > >
> > > Java is probably the best route for realtime model rendering on the web.
> > > The challenge would be to write a rendering engine that quickly processes
> > > large model files (as opposed to most current renderers which take a while
> > > if the part count is large).
> >
> > Yes, I agree, however you expect larger files to take longer. I would tend
> > towards a low-quality image, as it's targetted at screen viewing, that would
> > speed things up a little. I think Michael's MLcad renderer is fairly fast, a
> > Java version of that might get reasonable speed, and I think would be good
> > enough quality for such a tool.
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> MLCad great for editing but slows down significantly with large files. The only
> currently released program that even approches web acceptible speeds is L3Lab
> (although LDView isn't far behind).
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> I just did a little search on SourceForge and came up with this:
> http://jlug.sourceforge.net/
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> It's not an applet but it's in Java. I'm not sure how hard it would be to
> convert.
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> -Orion
Anybody who is interested in a Java and 3D should also check out
the Art of Illusion program at <http://artofillusion.org/>. It is open source
(GPL) and has I/O plug-ins to support reading and writing different
graphics file formats.
-Wayne
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