[openvrml-develop] SimVRMLLookat Viewer

[John R. <ric...@sp...>]

Hello,

I will be at Macworld trying to show off a modified MacLookat VRML viewer.
It is called SimVRMLLoookat. It is MacLookat modified to accept Apple
Events from SuperCard and Labview. It consists of the SimVRMLLookat viewer.
The SimVRML RPT (Rapid Prototyping Tool), a user guide and test virtual
environments. Mostly architecture.

SuperCard is functionally equivalent and I feel superior to Macromedia
Director 8 and this API goes a long way to making it equivalent to Director
8.5 with shockwave 3D. The reference implementation of the API is created
in SuperCard. It is really cool, if I must say so.....

Labview is for real time data acquisition and for making scientific UI's.
I'll be at the Lego Mindstormes BOF. Mindstormes uses a sort of Labview
lite called robolab.

The modifications have an API. It is speech input enabled. Speech requires
a decent microphone. The SuperCard development environment is cheap (~
$100). Robolab is cheap and can be found in toy stores (pisco Lego-Dacta
makes it). The full Labview by National Instruments is $2000 or more.

The viewer is anticipated to be up on source forge in mid January.

It is not evident in this release, but the goal is to add generic core
simulation functionality to OpenVRML. The API gives more information.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Michael Louka who made MacLookat. Mike has been very
helpful. Also, all the others involved in OpenVRML shuch as Chris Morley,
Branden McDaniel, S.K. Bose,.......

John F. Richardson