Now that i think about it, this could probably be useful for displaying chemical molecules. From what i understand jmol has been on the wishlist for quite a while. I don't know how much would be involved in this, but we could conceivably make a js molecule viewer (on the theory js is better than java). At the very least it could display simple molecules. -- - bawolff Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:31 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/22 bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com>: > >> We could display 3d world files (VRML and what not. which honestly >> this whole webGL thing imho seems to vrml/x3d what canvas is to svg - >> two sides of the same coin. but than again i'm not all that familiar >> with it). I'm not sure how useful that'd be. Could display 3d shapes >> perhaps where the user could control the viewpoint. Maybe to make >> 3d-tour esque things where you could look arround a place. Overall the >> uses of such a thing seem rather minimal. > > > Displaying 3D models is an obvious and useful one! I wonder if the > rendering speed is useful. (The Firefox 3 and 3.5 SVG renderer is > usably accurate, but *really slow*.) > > We'd probably need a server-side renderer to drop back to. But yeah, > that's a use for this. > > > - d. > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
