From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Wed Jan 9 09:45:30 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:45:30 -0800 Subject: [X3D educators] new mailing list: educators@x3dGraphics.com Message-ID: <4785083A.20901@nps.navy.mil> hello colleagues. I'm happy to report that we have started up a new mailing list for educators interested in teaching X3D Graphics using our book _X3D for Web Authors_. i've taken the liberty of subscribing some of you who might be interested. the mailing list web page for subscription/unsubscription is http://x3dbook.com/mailman/listinfo/educators_x3dbook.com There has been a lot of recent work. Completely new authoring tool, X3D-Edit v3.2 beta. This is built in Java using the Netbeans platform and runs on Windows, Mac and (so we've heard) Linux. Free, open source. Available at: https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit Updated examples: http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors http://x3dgraphics.com/X3dExamplesX3dForWebAuthors.zip Errata are now available: http://x3dgraphics.com/errata.php Most significantly, I'm now putting up slidesets for each chapter. These are provided in .pdf and .odp Open Document Presentation formats. Both slides and corresponding notes pages are included. http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/index.php The tool, examples, slides and related resources are all provided free and in open source. It is our hope that you will find these resources useful, and that this email list might discuss how to best improve things in support of teaching 3D graphics. All comments and feedback welcome, thanks for considering these possibilities. all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman From Didier.Courtaud at cea.fr Thu Jan 10 00:09:20 2008 From: Didier.Courtaud at cea.fr (Didier Courtaud) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:09:20 +0100 Subject: [X3D educators] new mailing list: educators@x3dGraphics.com In-Reply-To: <4785083A.20901@nps.navy.mil> References: <4785083A.20901@nps.navy.mil> Message-ID: <20080110080920.GA3311@u-boxe.bruyeres.cea.fr> Hi Don ! Thanks a lot for putting all this material available for educational purpose ! It is a great help for us ! Didier Courtaud ( I am preparing a course on X3D in French for PhD students at the University of Evry in the south of Paris ( http://www.univ-evry.fr ) ) On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:45:30AM -0800, Don Brutzman wrote: > hello colleagues. I'm happy to report that we have started up a > new mailing list for educators interested in teaching X3D Graphics > using our book _X3D for Web Authors_. > > i've taken the liberty of subscribing some of you who might be interested. > the mailing list web page for subscription/unsubscription is > > http://x3dbook.com/mailman/listinfo/educators_x3dbook.com > > There has been a lot of recent work. > > Completely new authoring tool, X3D-Edit v3.2 beta. This is built in Java > using the Netbeans platform and runs on Windows, Mac and (so we've heard) > Linux. Free, open source. Available at: > > https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit > > Updated examples: > > http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors > http://x3dgraphics.com/X3dExamplesX3dForWebAuthors.zip > > Errata are now available: > > http://x3dgraphics.com/errata.php > > Most significantly, I'm now putting up slidesets for each chapter. > These are provided in .pdf and .odp Open Document Presentation > formats. Both slides and corresponding notes pages are included. > > http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/index.php > > The tool, examples, slides and related resources are all provided > free and in open source. It is our hope that you will find these > resources useful, and that this email list might discuss how to > best improve things in support of teaching 3D graphics. > > All comments and feedback welcome, thanks for considering these > possibilities. > > all the best, Don > -- > Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 > MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 > Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman > > > _______________________________________________ > educators mailing list > educators at x3dgraphics.com > http://x3dbook.com/mailman/listinfo/educators_x3dbook.com From Didier.Courtaud at cea.fr Thu Jan 10 00:28:04 2008 From: Didier.Courtaud at cea.fr (Didier Courtaud) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:28:04 +0100 Subject: [X3D educators] new mailing list: educators@x3dGraphics.com In-Reply-To: <4785083A.20901@nps.navy.mil> References: <4785083A.20901@nps.navy.mil> Message-ID: <20080110082804.GB3311@u-boxe.bruyeres.cea.fr> Hi Don I have just downloaded the slides corresponding to the Chapter 1 of your book ( http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01-TechnicalOverview.odp ) in Open Document Format. - Firefox does not recognize the MIME type of the file and force me to record the file. ( that is not a great problem (:) ) - But when I look at the slides in Open Office, most of the images ( screenshots ) are unavailable because their URL point to a local file location ( ie file://Chapter1.... ) Once again, thanks to put all this stuff online ! Didier Courtaud > Most significantly, I'm now putting up slidesets for each chapter. > These are provided in .pdf and .odp Open Document Presentation > formats. Both slides and corresponding notes pages are included. > > http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/index.php > > The tool, examples, slides and related resources are all provided > free and in open source. It is our hope that you will find these > resources useful, and that this email list might discuss how to > best improve things in support of teaching 3D graphics. > From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Fri Jan 11 07:28:50 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:28:50 -0800 Subject: [X3D educators] new mailing list: educators@x3dGraphics.com In-Reply-To: <20080110082804.GB3311@u-boxe.bruyeres.cea.fr> References: <4785083A.20901@nps.navy.mil> <20080110082804.GB3311@u-boxe.bruyeres.cea.fr> Message-ID: <47878B32.9030700@nps.navy.mil> Didier Courtaud wrote: > Hi Don > > I have just downloaded the slides corresponding to the Chapter 1 of your book > ( http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01-TechnicalOverview.odp ) > in Open Document Format. > > - Firefox does not recognize the MIME type of the file and force me to record the file. > ( that is not a great problem (:) ) OK. I am a relatively recent user of Open Office and that seemed to set up my Firefox (on windows XP) system OK. Do you have Open Office installed? > - But when I look at the slides in Open Office, most of the images ( screenshots ) are unavailable > because their URL point to a local file location ( ie file://Chapter1.... ) OK thanks for this report. Not sure how to fix but will investigate. > Once again, thanks to put all this stuff online ! De rien, you are most welcome. Am working on Chapter 5 materials and textures. Please also be aware that there are French tooltips online at http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltipsFrench.html Please advise, are the special characters working for you? A recent problem seems to have garbled them on my systems, was trying to diagnose whether the fonts in Firefox need reloading or whether the autogenerated special-character text has been garbled. all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Thu Jan 24 00:16:03 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:16:03 -0800 Subject: [X3D educators] new mailing list: educators@x3dGraphics.com In-Reply-To: <20080110082804.GB3311@u-boxe.bruyeres.cea.fr> References: <4785083A.20901@nps.navy.mil> <20080110082804.GB3311@u-boxe.bruyeres.cea.fr> Message-ID: <47984943.7080502@nps.navy.mil> Didier Courtaud wrote: > Hi Don > > I have just downloaded the slides corresponding to the Chapter 1 of your book > ( http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01-TechnicalOverview.odp ) > in Open Document Format. > > - Firefox does not recognize the MIME type of the file and force me to record the file. > ( that is not a great problem (:) ) I don't think there is a browser plugin yet from openoffice.org though the tool itself is free. I have also posted .pdf versions, which are easy for most people. n.b. that first half of each .pdf slides sets are landscape-mode slides, the second half are portrait-mode slides + notes. Also added .zip for all chapters at once, making download easier http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthorsSlidesets.pdf.zip http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthorsSlidesets.odp.zip > - But when I look at the slides in Open Office, most of the images ( screenshots ) are unavailable > because their URL point to a local file location ( ie file://Chapter1.... ) Thank you for pointing out this problem. I have since figured out how to do the images properly and the problem should be solved. Please check when convenient so that my laptop isn't fooling me again. > Once again, thanks to put all this stuff online ! > > Didier Courtaud You are of course welcome, further comments are gratefully received. Please be advised there are more resources now: - First chapter slideset split into "Getting Started" as chapter 0, enabling quicker introduction and then jumping to authoring in chapter 2 - slidesets provided up through Chapter 5, Appearance Materials Textures (something like 340 slides for 6 slidesets, many notes pages also) I am currently teaching the course with the new slides. Goal for each slideset is around a week's worth of classes (4-5 hours). There is also a new capability in X3D-Edit: embedded chat. Manual install required, directions at https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/XmppChatCollaborationModule.html Work in progress: - putting chat setup in the autoinstaller so that manual plugin addition is no longer required - allowing multiple chat participants to share editing of a single file - this is a way-cool feature in Netbeans that we are carefully adding - ongoing bugfixes, roughly weekly autoupdates enjoy, aloha all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman From npolys at vt.edu Wed Jan 30 13:33:39 2008 From: npolys at vt.edu (Nicholas F. Polys) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:33:39 -0500 Subject: [X3D educators] new mailing list: educators@x3dGraphics.com In-Reply-To: <47984943.7080502@nps.navy.mil> Message-ID: Hi Don~ I am having trouble accessing the pdf slidesets The requested page is unavailable. Please use the navigation links to find the desired page. If you are having difficulty finding the information you want, please do not hesitate to contact the authors. thanks and br, _nicholas > -----Original Message----- > From: educators-bounces at x3dbook.com > [mailto:educators-bounces at x3dbook.com]On Behalf Of Don Brutzman > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:16 AM > To: Didier Courtaud > Cc: educators at x3dbook.com > Subject: Re: [X3D educators] new mailing list: educators at x3dGraphics.com > > > Didier Courtaud wrote: > > Hi Don > > > > I have just downloaded the slides corresponding to the Chapter 1 of your book > > ( http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01-TechnicalOverview.odp ) > > in Open Document Format. > > > > - Firefox does not recognize the MIME type of the file and force me to record the file. > > ( that is not a great problem (:) ) > > I don't think there is a browser plugin yet from openoffice.org though the > tool itself is free. > > I have also posted .pdf versions, which are easy for most people. > n.b. that first half of each .pdf slides sets are landscape-mode slides, > the second half are portrait-mode slides + notes. > > Also added .zip for all chapters at once, making download easier > > http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets > http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthorsSlidesets.pdf.zip > http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthorsSlidesets.odp.zip > > > - But when I look at the slides in Open Office, most of the images ( screenshots ) are unavailable > > because their URL point to a local file location ( ie file://Chapter1.... ) > > Thank you for pointing out this problem. I have since figured out > how to do the images properly and the problem should be solved. > Please check when convenient so that my laptop isn't fooling me again. > > > Once again, thanks to put all this stuff online ! > > > > Didier Courtaud > > You are of course welcome, further comments are gratefully received. > > Please be advised there are more resources now: > > - First chapter slideset split into "Getting Started" as chapter 0, > enabling quicker introduction and then jumping to authoring > in chapter 2 > - slidesets provided up through Chapter 5, Appearance Materials Textures > (something like 340 slides for 6 slidesets, many notes pages also) > > I am currently teaching the course with the new slides. Goal for each > slideset is around a week's worth of classes (4-5 hours). > > There is also a new capability in X3D-Edit: embedded chat. Manual install > required, directions at > https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit > https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/XmppChatCollaborationModule.html > > Work in progress: > - putting chat setup in the autoinstaller so that manual plugin addition > is no longer required > - allowing multiple chat participants to share editing of a single file - > this is a way-cool feature in Netbeans that we are carefully adding > - ongoing bugfixes, roughly weekly autoupdates > > enjoy, aloha > > all the best, Don > -- > Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 > MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 > Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman > > > _______________________________________________ > educators mailing list > educators at x3dgraphics.com > http://x3dbook.com/mailman/listinfo/educators_x3dbook.com From Leonard.Daly at realism.com Wed Jan 30 14:08:20 2008 From: Leonard.Daly at realism.com (Leonard Daly) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:08:20 -0800 Subject: [X3D educators] Unavailable Slide Sets [was: new mailing list: educators@x3dGraphics.com] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47A0F554.4080009@realism.com> Nicholas, Were you attempting to use the link at the top 'All .pdf slidesets'. That link (and the one for the .odp) are not correct. Please use http://x3dGraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthors/X3dForWebAuthorsSlidesets.pdf.zip until Don can correct the link. If you want the ODP version, substitute 'odp' for 'pdf' in the above link. Leonard Daly Nicholas F. Polys wrote: > Hi Don~ > > I am having trouble accessing the pdf slidesets > > The requested page is unavailable. Please use the navigation links to find the desired page. If you are having difficulty finding > the information you want, please do not hesitate to contact the authors. > > thanks and br, > > _nicholas > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: educators-bounces at x3dbook.com >> [mailto:educators-bounces at x3dbook.com]On Behalf Of Don Brutzman >> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:16 AM >> To: Didier Courtaud >> Cc: educators at x3dbook.com >> Subject: Re: [X3D educators] new mailing list: educators at x3dGraphics.com >> >> >> Didier Courtaud wrote: >> >>> Hi Don >>> >>> I have just downloaded the slides corresponding to the Chapter 1 of your book >>> ( http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01-TechnicalOverview.odp ) >>> in Open Document Format. >>> >>> - Firefox does not recognize the MIME type of the file and force me to record the file. >>> ( that is not a great problem (:) ) >>> >> I don't think there is a browser plugin yet from openoffice.org though the >> tool itself is free. >> >> I have also posted .pdf versions, which are easy for most people. >> n.b. that first half of each .pdf slides sets are landscape-mode slides, >> the second half are portrait-mode slides + notes. >> >> Also added .zip for all chapters at once, making download easier >> >> http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets >> http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthorsSlidesets.pdf.zip >> http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthorsSlidesets.odp.zip >> >> >>> - But when I look at the slides in Open Office, most of the images ( screenshots ) are unavailable >>> because their URL point to a local file location ( ie file://Chapter1.... ) >>> >> Thank you for pointing out this problem. I have since figured out >> how to do the images properly and the problem should be solved. >> Please check when convenient so that my laptop isn't fooling me again. >> >> >>> Once again, thanks to put all this stuff online ! >>> >>> Didier Courtaud >>> >> You are of course welcome, further comments are gratefully received. >> >> Please be advised there are more resources now: >> >> - First chapter slideset split into "Getting Started" as chapter 0, >> enabling quicker introduction and then jumping to authoring >> in chapter 2 >> - slidesets provided up through Chapter 5, Appearance Materials Textures >> (something like 340 slides for 6 slidesets, many notes pages also) >> >> I am currently teaching the course with the new slides. Goal for each >> slideset is around a week's worth of classes (4-5 hours). >> >> There is also a new capability in X3D-Edit: embedded chat. Manual install >> required, directions at >> https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit >> https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/XmppChatCollaborationModule.html >> >> Work in progress: >> - putting chat setup in the autoinstaller so that manual plugin addition >> is no longer required >> - allowing multiple chat participants to share editing of a single file - >> this is a way-cool feature in Netbeans that we are carefully adding >> - ongoing bugfixes, roughly weekly autoupdates >> >> enjoy, aloha >> >> all the best, Don >> -- >> Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 >> MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 >> Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> educators mailing list >> educators at x3dgraphics.com >> http://x3dbook.com/mailman/listinfo/educators_x3dbook.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > educators mailing list > educators at x3dgraphics.com > http://x3dbook.com/mailman/listinfo/educators_x3dbook.com > > > -- +-------- | Leonard Daly | Internet Solutions http://realism.com/ | eBusiness Specialist | X3D Book: http://x3dGraphics.com +------------------------------ From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Wed Jan 30 18:09:36 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:09:36 -0800 Subject: [X3D educators] Unavailable Slide Sets [was: new mailing list: educators@x3dGraphics.com] In-Reply-To: <47A0F554.4080009@realism.com> References: <47A0F554.4080009@realism.com> Message-ID: <47A12DE0.4060304@nps.navy.mil> Len, thanks for posting the direct link. The slidesets page appears to be working properly now: http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/index.php all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Sat Feb 2 11:57:33 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:57:33 -0800 Subject: [X3D educators] CGEMS submission for X3D Message-ID: <47A4CB2D.4040904@nps.navy.mil> As you may know, the Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source (CGEMS) is a EuroGraphics/SIGGRAPH archive designed for educators and intended to provide a source of refereed high-quality content. It is available at http://cgems.inesc.pt Attached for your information is a submission to CGEMS for considering the _X3D for Web Authors_ book, plus the X3D-Edit authoring tool, course slidesets and the X3D examples archives, as a CGEMS course module resource. Further improvements and educational collaboration are important priorities for this work. Comments welcome, thanks for considering the possibilities. all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks for considering this. all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman From didier.courtaud at cea.fr Mon Feb 25 07:02:18 2008 From: didier.courtaud at cea.fr (Didier Courtaud) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:02:18 +0100 Subject: [X3D educators] X3D for Web Authors course adoption In-Reply-To: <47BF0272.1050903@nps.navy.mil> References: <47BF0272.1050903@nps.navy.mil> Message-ID: <47C2D87A.50202@cea.fr> Hi Don Once again thanks a lot for the great job you are doing for us ! As I already said, I am professor at part time at the University of Evry ( in the south of Paris ). I am actually preparing an X3D course for postdoc students that I have plan for Spring 2009. That is why I am interested to get your slides and translate it into French ( if you agree with that). Of course, I will let them accesible through your Web site as soon as they get available. But I have a little problem with your .odp files ( which I prefer since I have to modify the content and since I also use Open Office to teach) Each one has a few but anoying broken images as you can see in the attached snapshot of the slide 28 of your Chapter 08.( I checked : it is not the case with the PDF file ). Can you please correct thes files and republish them ? Thanks by advance Didier Don Brutzman a ?crit : > We will begin listing full courses and short courses that have adopted > the book in their classes. Hopefully this will help people share ideas > and improvements, making it easier to teach X3D and general 3D graphics. > > http://x3dgraphics.com/adoption.php > > If anyone would like to include their course, please let me know. > Thanks for considering this. > > all the best, Don -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: x3d.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 93694 bytes Desc: not available URL: From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Mon Feb 25 22:59:49 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:59:49 -0800 Subject: [X3D educators] X3D for Web Authors course adoption In-Reply-To: <47C2D87A.50202@cea.fr> References: <47BF0272.1050903@nps.navy.mil> <47C2D87A.50202@cea.fr> Message-ID: <47C3B8E5.4040702@nps.navy.mil> Didier Courtaud wrote: > Hi Don > > Once again thanks a lot for the great job you are doing for us ! de rien, you are welcome > As I already said, I am professor at part time at the University of Evry > ( in the south of Paris ). I am actually preparing an X3D course for > postdoc students that I have plan for Spring 2009. great > That is why I am interested to get your slides and translate it into > French ( if you agree with that). Of course, I will let them accesible > through your Web site as soon as they get available. i have asked the open office forum whether there is a way to put the slidesets under version control, and to have translations of the prose. http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=2992 ] hi, i've used Impress to create a number of slidesets. i would like to place it under version control and make it possible to have internationalized versions (i.e. translations) into other languages. ] ] am wondering if there is any support for internationalization (i18n) of impress documents themselves. presumably this would involve unzipping it and working with the underlying XML, all without mangling the original document structure. there is further information on open office internationalization at http://l10n.openoffice.org but it appears to be focused on i18n/l10n for the tool itself, not documents.. > But I have a little problem with your .odp files ( which I prefer since > I have to modify the content and since I also use Open Office to teach) > > Each one has a few but anoying broken images as you can see in the > attached snapshot of the slide 28 of your Chapter 08.( I checked : it is > not the case with the PDF file ). > > Can you please correct these files and republish them ? i am happy to correct the problems, but not quite sure why they occur... when i drag/drop images to margin off on the slide, then move them over onto the slide, copying images into the file usually seems to work OK. i'm not sure how to detect this problem on my system since the links are relative regardless of how i do it. if you know of a better way to use OO, please advise. i guess the only other way to do it is to download off the web to recheck... OK, did that, i now see the problems you are referring to. so, i tried to correct slide 28 and other missing images in chapter 8 but the changes didn't make any difference, unfortunately. will have to take another look at it some other time. fwiw individual presentation updated online. http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter08-UserInteractivity.odp > Thanks by advance merci beaucoup for the feedback Didier, i will be happy to keep going and am thrilled that you'd like to do a translation. looking forward to further progress. all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Tue May 27 18:38:47 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:38:47 -0700 Subject: [X3D educators] slideset, software and example updates, X3D for Web Authors Message-ID: <483CB7A7.5090501@nps.navy.mil> I'm happy to report that two more chapters are now supported by slidesets: http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/index.php 10. (.pdf) (.odp) Geometry Part 3: Geometry2D Nodes (50 slides) 11. (.pdf) (.odp) Lighting and Environment Nodes (73 slides) Furthermore all of the slidesets are now under a different open-source Creative Commons license, which is more appropriate for educational content. Software and X3D scenes remain under a FreeBSD open-source license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/license.html A few new errata were found and corrected for chapters 10 and 11: http://x3dgraphics.com/errata.php Updates to the X3D-Edit authoring tool continue on a weekly basis. X3D GeoSpatial nodes are fully supported, Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) nodes are undergoing testing, and the Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) component is underway. The entire application was also upgraded from Netbeans 6.0 to 6.1. https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit The book examples have also been updated for these two chapters: http://x3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors http://x3dgraphics.com/X3dExamplesX3dForWebAuthors.zip Finally the book is available both in print and electronic copies, same price. Links are online at the X3D for Web Authors home page, http://x3dgraphics.com Hopefully educators and students are finding all this support helpful. Questions, comments and improvements are welcome. all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Tue Aug 5 18:32:25 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:32:25 -0700 Subject: [X3D educators] new X3D book slideset Creating Prototype Nodes; X3D-Edit update; video podcasts online Message-ID: <4898FF29.9080305@nps.navy.mil> I'm happy to report that a new slideset is available supporting our book _X3D for Web Authors_, namely Chapter 14: Creating Prototype Nodes. I'll be going over event animation, scripts and prototypes as part of the Web3D 2008 Symposium. The tutorial begins in the leadoff session this Saturday morning 9:00-10:30 at the LA Convention Center. http://www.web3d.org/conferences/web3d2008/ http://www.web3d.org/conferences/web3d2008/program/index.html#animation Refreshed versions of slides, examples and X3D-Edit are being distributed on the 2008 X3D Showcase DVD, free on site. Also available online. http://x3dgraphics.com http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit We released a new version of X3D-Edit today with improved security support (XML Encryption for confidentiality, XML Signature for authentication). We've also added support for the SwirlX3D browser, plus the ability to launch all locally installed browsers at once for the current scene. This is a great way to compare and test how your work looks to others. As an extra extra bonus, we've been recording video presentations of the NPS X3D course this quarter. Big thanks go to Jeff Malnick and Jeff Weekley for video production, averaging one-day turnarounds (!) with great quality. Lessons are being made available online at http://www.movesinstitute.org/video/Courses/MV3204 Comments welcome. Good luck with your work, have fun with X3D! all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman From didier.courtaud at cea.fr Fri Aug 29 02:36:23 2008 From: didier.courtaud at cea.fr (COURTAUD Didier) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:36:23 +0200 Subject: [X3D educators] new X3D book slideset Creating Prototype Nodes; X3D-Edit update; video podcasts online In-Reply-To: <4898FF29.9080305@nps.navy.mil> References: <4898FF29.9080305@nps.navy.mil> Message-ID: <48B7C317.6060909@cea.fr> Hi Don As I have already said, I am about translating your slideset into French for a course at the University of Evry ( in the South of Paris ). That is why I have downloaded today all your .odp files from http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/index.php and I have tested all these files with my local Open Office suite ( 2.4 ). I have compiled in the attached file all the slides where images are missing due to the little problem on OpenOffice I mentionned you in March. Of course, I can grab them from the PDF files but I think it will be better if you can correct the .odp files directly since : - the image quality will be better - it can be useful for other educators An other little problem is my local version of Open Office seems not to have your font and all the texts spread out of the box as shown in the attached screenshot. What font are you using to create the .odp file ? All this is not a criticism at all and I want to thank you once again for all your work on X3D, this slideset and X3D-Edit. Best regards Didier Courtaud Don Brutzman a ?crit : > I'm happy to report that a new slideset is available supporting our book > _X3D for Web Authors_, namely Chapter 14: Creating Prototype Nodes. > > I'll be going over event animation, scripts and prototypes as part of the > Web3D 2008 Symposium. The tutorial begins in the leadoff session this > Saturday morning 9:00-10:30 at the LA Convention Center. > > http://www.web3d.org/conferences/web3d2008/ > http://www.web3d.org/conferences/web3d2008/program/index.html#animation > > Refreshed versions of slides, examples and X3D-Edit are being distributed > on the 2008 X3D Showcase DVD, free on site. Also available online. > > http://x3dgraphics.com > http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets > http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors > https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit > > We released a new version of X3D-Edit today with improved security support > (XML Encryption for confidentiality, XML Signature for authentication). > We've also added support for the SwirlX3D browser, plus the ability to > launch all locally installed browsers at once for the current scene. > This is a great way to compare and test how your work looks to others. > > As an extra extra bonus, we've been recording video presentations of the > NPS X3D course this quarter. Big thanks go to Jeff Malnick and Jeff Weekley > for video production, averaging one-day turnarounds (!) with great quality. > Lessons are being made available online at > > http://www.movesinstitute.org/video/Courses/MV3204 > > Comments welcome. Good luck with your work, have fun with X3D! > > all the best, Don From didier.courtaud at cea.fr Fri Aug 29 02:43:16 2008 From: didier.courtaud at cea.fr (COURTAUD Didier) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:43:16 +0200 Subject: [X3D educators] new X3D book slideset Creating Prototype Nodes; X3D-Edit update; video podcasts online In-Reply-To: <48B7C317.6060909@cea.fr> References: <4898FF29.9080305@nps.navy.mil> <48B7C317.6060909@cea.fr> Message-ID: <48B7C4B4.30507@cea.fr> It should be better with the attachments !!! Sorry COURTAUD Didier a ?crit : > Hi Don > > As I have already said, I am about translating your slideset into French > for a course at the University of Evry ( in the South of Paris ). > > That is why I have downloaded today all your .odp files from > > http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/index.php > > and I have tested all these files with my local Open Office suite ( 2.4 ). > > I have compiled in the attached file all the slides where images are missing > due to the little problem on OpenOffice I mentionned you in March. > > Of course, I can grab them from the PDF files but I think it will be better > if you can correct the .odp files directly since : > > - the image quality will be better > - it can be useful for other educators > > An other little problem is my local version of Open Office seems not to have your font > and all the texts spread out of the box as shown in the attached screenshot. > > What font are you using to create the .odp file ? > > All this is not a criticism at all and I want to thank you once again for all your work on X3D, this > slideset and X3D-Edit. > > Best regards > > Didier Courtaud > > > > > Don Brutzman a ?crit : >> I'm happy to report that a new slideset is available supporting our book >> _X3D for Web Authors_, namely Chapter 14: Creating Prototype Nodes. >> >> I'll be going over event animation, scripts and prototypes as part of the >> Web3D 2008 Symposium. The tutorial begins in the leadoff session this >> Saturday morning 9:00-10:30 at the LA Convention Center. >> >> http://www.web3d.org/conferences/web3d2008/ >> http://www.web3d.org/conferences/web3d2008/program/index.html#animation >> >> Refreshed versions of slides, examples and X3D-Edit are being distributed >> on the 2008 X3D Showcase DVD, free on site. Also available online. >> >> http://x3dgraphics.com >> http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets >> http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors >> https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit >> >> We released a new version of X3D-Edit today with improved security support >> (XML Encryption for confidentiality, XML Signature for authentication). >> We've also added support for the SwirlX3D browser, plus the ability to >> launch all locally installed browsers at once for the current scene. >> This is a great way to compare and test how your work looks to others. >> >> As an extra extra bonus, we've been recording video presentations of the >> NPS X3D course this quarter. Big thanks go to Jeff Malnick and Jeff Weekley >> for video production, averaging one-day turnarounds (!) with great quality. >> Lessons are being made available online at >> >> http://www.movesinstitute.org/video/Courses/MV3204 >> >> Comments welcome. Good luck with your work, have fun with X3D! >> >> all the best, Don > > -------------- next part -------------- Getting started =============== slide 16 slide 51 X3D Scene Graph Introduction ============================ slide 11 slide 17 slide 31 slide 55 slide 71 slide 79 slide 86 slide 89 slide 94 slide 100 Technical Overview ( ch 1 ) ================== slide 16 slide 32 slide 42 slide 46 slide 57 slide 65 slide 73 Geometry Part 1: Primitives ( ch 2 ) =========================== slide 12 slide 15 slide 18 slide 21 slide 24 slide 27 slide 29 slide 31 slide 32 Grouping Nodes ( ch 3 ) ============== slide 22 slide 30 slide 35 slide 39 slide 43 slide 44 slide 48 slide 55 Viewing and Navigation ( ch 4 ) ====================== slide 10 slide 21 slide 27 slide 28 slide 37 slide 40 slide 49 slide 53 slide 54 slide 60 slide 61 slide 71 Appearance, Material, and Texture ( ch 5 ) ================================= slide 14 slide 21 slide 28 slide 31 slide 34 slide 35 slide 36 slide 37 slide 40 slide 41 slide 42 slide 43 slide 46 slide 49 slide 54 slide 62 slide 63 slide 67 slide 72 slide 75 slide 78 slide 80 slide 82 slide 83 slide 85 slide 92 Geometry Part 2: Points, Lines, and Polygons ( ch 6 ) ============================================ slide 11 slide 13 slide 14 slide 15 slide 24 slide 28 slide 31 slide 34 slide 37 slide 41 slide 42 slide 44 slide 45 slide 47 slide 50 slide 52 slide 54 slide 60 slide 63 slide 64 slide 77 Event Animation ( ch 7 ) =============== slide 19 slide 27 slide 33 slide 44 slide 45 slide 47 slide 48 slide 56 slide 59 slide 60 slide 62 slide 63 slide 65 slide 66 slide 67 slide 71 slide 85 slide 87 slide 89 slide 90 slide 95 User Interactivity ( ch 8 ) ================== slide 66 Event Utilities and Scripting ( ch 9 ) ============================= slide 48 slide 49 slide 77 slide 85 Geometry Part 3: Geometry2D Nodes ( ch 10 ) ================================= slide 46 Lighting and Environment Nodes ( ch 11 ) ============================== slide 67 Environmental Sensor and Sound Nodes ( ch 12 ) ==================================== slide 17 slide 18 slide 24 slide 27 slide 28 slide 29 slide 33 slide 35 slide 37 slide 38 slide 42 slide 47 slide 48 slide 49 slide 56 Creating Prototype Nodes ( ch 14 ) ======================== slide 9 slide 20 slide 21 slide 27 slide 28 slide 33 slide 46 slide 48 slide 61 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: example.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 240067 bytes Desc: not available URL: From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Mon Sep 29 16:56:30 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:56:30 -0700 Subject: [X3D educators] summary and resources, X3D and SVG Message-ID: <48E16B2E.3020902@nps.navy.mil> I've added a slide (# 87) to the chapter slideset for textures regarding SVG that might be of general interest. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) SVG describes 2D graphics using scalably-sized vector definitions, rather than raster pixels - SVG supports 2D images, interactive applications - Support for SVG not directly required in X3D Multiple specifications sharing a common core - SVG, Mobile Profiles (Basic and Tiny), SVG Print - W3C home: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG - Community: http://svg.org Conversion to other formats available using Batik - http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik open-source Notes: SVG support not is directly required by the X3D specification. Nevertheless, SVG support theoretically might be legally provided by any X3D player that wants to support SVG as an ImageTexture format. Online support for converting SVG to PNG, JPEG or TIFF formats: http://www.fileformat.info/convert/image/svg2raster.htm This server exposes Batik functionality SVG implementations http://wiki.svg.org/Viewer_Matrix SVG support matrix for various browsers http://www.codedread.com/svg-support.php SVG test suite http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br work +1.831.656.2149 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA fax +1.831.656.7599 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/X3D/XMSF http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman From brutzman at nps.navy.mil Thu Nov 20 08:45:38 2008 From: brutzman at nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:45:38 -0800 Subject: [X3D educators] CGEMS Call for Materials In-Reply-To: <4B943954DD289E47958BCEC8C32269BE910FD2@wsi-server2.gris.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <4B943954DD289E47958BCEC8C32269BE910FD2@wsi-server2.gris.uni-tuebingen.de> Message-ID: <49259432.7000501@nps.navy.mil> Please forward to interested colleagues, and please excuse multiple postings. 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