[Embedlets-dev] Re: 3D Visualization

[Andrzej J. T. <an...@ch...>]

Welcome to the Embedlet Emperor's discussion list.  If it wasn't for Ted 
butting in to respond, all 8 posts would have been from me, in the last 
Digest version of this list.  ;-)

Ted said:

> Well, as it turns out I have been learning Java3D over the past year or so and
> I have already been writing down some blue-sky ideas of ways to leverage it in
> a future version of the wiring tool.  The way that I got interested in Java3D
> was that a number of my students imagined that they wanted to be 3D game
> programmers when they grew up and so they started digging into DirectX.  After
> 6 months of pounding on DirectX they had very little to show for their
> efforts.

Not a surprise there....I've done more with the 2D Java API than the 3D, but 
they are productive API's to work with, and eventually the CPU speed makes 
Java overhead irrelevant.

> It might have ended there but these same students had also taken great
> pleasure in constantly telling me what a worthless pile of junk Java was and
> how it would never replace C for 'real' applications.  As soon as they
> officially gave up I started digging into Java3D and within about a week or so
> I had put together a nice little 3D world on a 1000 meter by 1000 meter plane
> which had a number of static and dynamic 3D objects on it.  Some of the 3D
> objects had .jpg skins on them which contained people's faces (theirs of
> course!) and one could easily fly through this world using the keyboard arrow
> keys.

Just for fun, check out the url:  www.codestuds.com

If you keep this up,  you'll be aiming for membership in this select group, 
Ted! <grins>

> I am not much into games but it is my opinion that Java3D might potentially be
> an excellent tool for application visualization and assembly.

Possibly.....it would be interesting to see how the boundaries could be 
pushed with such technology.  Might make for a very interesting Graphical 
Wiring tool.


Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com