X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors

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 an open-source license. 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 and module appears to be ready for undergraduate use. Expressing 3D 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 skills for web authors.

LOD forceTransitions animation pattern, illustrated

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Event tracing

X3D-Edit author-assist feature provides support

for tracing output events

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Chapter 12

Environment Sensor and Sound Nodes

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John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

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Chapter 2

Geometry 1: Primitive Shapes

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Dorothy in Oz: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

—L. Frank Baum, Wizard of Oz, 1939

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Chapter 3

Grouping Nodes

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Chapter 4

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Viewing and Navigation

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

Henry David Thoreau, 1849

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Getting Started with X3D

A journey of a thousand miles

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begins with a single step.

Chinese proverb

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