Computer Graphics Teaching Support using X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors
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Brutzman, Don
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2D and 3D modeling
Interactive techniques
Scene graphs
Virtual Reality
Web graphics
Interactive techniques
Scene graphs
Virtual Reality
Web graphics
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2008-10-05
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X3D is the ISO-standard scene-graph language for interactive 3D graphics on the Web. A new
course is available for teaching the fundamentals of 3D graphics using Extensible 3D (X3D). Resources
include a detailed textbook, an authoring tool, hundreds of example scenes, and detailed slidesets covering
each chapter. The published book is commercially available, while all other course-module resources are
provided online free under open-source licenses. Numerous other commercial and open resources are
available for X3D, which also serves as an interchange format. The supported course has been taught for
many years, successfully introducing masters’ students to the principles and techniques of 3D graphics
without requiring programming experience. This course is now ready for undergraduate use. Expressing
3D graphics modeling within the domain of Extensible Markup Language (XML) for the Web is novel and
has the potential to open up computer graphics to many new practitioners. This combined resource is
intended broadly support computer graphics education and 3D skills for web authors.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.