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 dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/22 bawolff bawolff+wn@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.