Hi Umang,
If I understand correctly, the core of your proposal is to automatically
generate an image preview based on an X3D or COLLADA file. I'm not familiar
with those formats, so there's one big question that needs to be answered
in your proposal: will the image be generated with the camera being placed
in a useful point of view?
Thus, I'd like you to check the following and use the findings to improve
your proposal:
- Does X3D or COLLADA embed a preview image as part of the file itself? If
yes, then that's probably the image we should be using.
- Do X3D and COLLADA files always contain camera information? If they only
contain the geometry (and textures?) of the models, then we're probably
going to have an issue with picking a default camera position.
Also, another question that needs to be answered is whether textures are
embedded in these files or if they are referenced. If they are referenced
instead of being embedded, then texture support in itself would be a
complex matter (how would people upload the images needed as textures?),
and your proposal makes no mention of it at the moment.
For me these questions are really what makes or breaks this proposal. If
the images we generate end up being often from weird angles, or without
textures, it will be of little use to people looking at the content on
Commons. It definitely wouldn't answer the use cases you've written.
If there is no camera angle information in the files, then maybe the
solution is to generate a preview image that contains more than one
automatic angle (6 points of views, maybe? the faces of a cube surrounding
the model). I think it's something you can figure out ahead of time, at
this stage of the process.
At any rate, I think the camera and texture questions need to be researched
in your proposal so that we get a better idea of how difficult the task is
going to be and how likely you will be to complete something in the given
time.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Umang Sharma <umange(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I am Umang Sharma from IIITH (International Institute of Information
Technology - Hyderabad), India and am interested in working for one the
projects proposed by the community i.e. "New media types supported in
Commons" as a GSOC candidate. I have drafted a proposal for the same.
This project has been a long standing community request and it would be
great if I were given the opportunity to work on this and make some
progress. I have planned a basic outline on how to approach the problem. I
have decided to provide a solution for either x3d or collada file
formats(required for representing computer graphics). I will work on the
other if time is there during my project. However, I would like feedback on
which file format is more in demand currently. Also, if anyone has any
recommendations for efficient raster image generations do tell. Please go
through my proposal and tell me how can I improve it and make it up to the
expectations of the community.
Link :
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Umang13/Gsoc14
Regards,
Umang
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