Quote for the Day
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
-- Samuel McChord Crothers
There are a large number of online resources for X3D. This page lists some of the most important ones.
Contents
Tutorials
- Daly, L. and Brutzman, D. "Advanced X3D Graphics", Tutorial, SIGGRAPH 2003, July 2003
- Daly, L. et al. "Introducing X3D", Tutorial, SIGGRAPH 2002, July 2002
- Thorne, C. and Weiley, V. 2003. "The Next Generation of Virtual worlds with VRML, X3D and MPEG4", Tutorial, Graphite 2003 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and South East Asia, Melbourne, Australia, February 2003.
Overviews
Books and Articles
- X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors. Brutzman and Daly/Morgan-Kaufmann, 2007.
- Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D. Geroimenko, Vladimir and Chen, Chaomei, Editors. Springer, January 2005.
- Visualizing the Semantic Web: XML-based Internet and Information Visualization, "Chapter 7: SVG and X3D: New XML Technologies for 2D and 3D Visualization". Geroimenko, Vladimir and Chen, Chaomei, Editors. Springer, October 2005.
- "XML Matters: The Web ain't just for 2D any more" by Dethe Elza.
- X3D Specifications
Example Software
Test Sequences
Discussion list
- x3d-public AT web3d.org (un-moderated)
