On 7/10/07, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
*Challenge*:
since the 3D world of our application can offer more than
displaying text and pictures, we want to integrate 3D objects and animation.
We could use the virtual 3D world and the character as a presentation
platform. The problem we face is the lack of 3D content. Wikipedia doesn't
support 3D models and we believe supporting them would be a big win for the
users because there are many types of objects that can be visualized much
better in a 3D environment with support for rotation, pan, zoom, etc. than a
simple 2D static picture. Movies might be a solution but movies are not
interactive and take much more bandwidth than the 3D data.
Wikipedia is based on a browser. How do you expect the users to such 3D
data? Note that Wikipedia will refuse it if it's unfree.
And, more importantly, where does all this new 3D content come from?
Users can take pictures with digital cameras, but generating 3D models
and animations is distinctly beyond the abilities of most
contributors.