[Opensim-dev] thinking about a viewer

[Mister Blue]

There is a lot of WebGL stuff happening out there. I thought I'd mash some
existing code together and create a simple viewer to generate some test
numbers and proof points, but it seems that every time I click on another
link I find another amazing WebGL project.

Some samples:
Blend4Web (http://www.blend4web.com/en/). A small company that makes a
Blender plugin and a browser view. You build your world in Blender and can
output html or js and then walk around in your world in the browser viewer.
The viewer itself is GPL.
Cesium (http://cesiumjs.org/) Cesium is a JavaScript library for creating
3D globes and 2D maps in a web browser without a plugin. It uses WebGL for
hardware-accelerated graphics, and is cross-platform, cross-browser, and
tuned for dynamic-data visualization. Cesium is open source under the
Apache 2.0 license. If you go to the site above, you orbit with the ISS.

Also fun talks at Siggraph next month:
*Progressive Streaming of Compressed 3D Graphics in a Web Browser*
A solution for fast progressive streaming and visualization of compressed
3D graphics on the web. The approach relies on a dedicated
progressive-compression algorithm and a plugin-free solution for streaming,
decoding, and visualization by the web browser, which relies on an
optimized parallel JavaScript/WebGL implementation. (Guillaume
Lavoué,Université de Lyon, LIRIS CNRS)
*Earth in Google Maps: Rendering Trillions of Triangles in JavaScript*
This talk gives an overview of the rendering technology used to render
Google Earth’s massive dataset in a web browser using JavaScript and WebGL.
(Janne Kontkanen, Evan Parker; Google Inc.)

The WebGL area has matured a lot since I last looked at it a year or two
ago.

Just had to share.


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:32 PM, M.E. Verhagen <marceled9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are a lot of double buttons and menu options in the current viewers.
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> For instance the top bar has got the parcel name and so does the second
> bar. (inlcusive all the restrictions buttons ... double ...)
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> The bottom bar starts with the Nearby chat button ... wich does exactly
> the same as the balloon button.
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> Wow that certainly adds to the complexity.
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> It would be better to get complete get rid of the ui, by making a second
> window with just all the buttons seperate from viewer window. Just the
> black top bar with the region and current opensim name would remain.
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> Maybe even an UI app for on the ipad or android can be made. (wich would
> then direct communicate with the viewer window)
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