[Fiware-miwi] three.js WebComponents

[Philipp Slusallek]

Hi Toni,

Nice stuff. from my perspective there are two ways to look at this work: 
One is to provide high level UI elements on top of a three.js 
implementation and the other is the start of creating a declarative 
layer on top of the three.js renderer. This seems more along the first 
line but both should be similarly interesting to us.

It great to see that other people are coming up with similar ideas now. 
It would be good to get the message about our XML3D design and 
implementation to these people out there. That way we could improve what 
we already have instead of reinventing the wheel.

It would be good if you can point people also to our papers from this 
year (http://graphics.cg.uni-saarland.de/publications/). They explain a 
lot of the background of why we have chose thing to work the way they work.

More specifically:
-- The "xml3d.js" paper explain a lot about the design of XML3D and its 
implementation 
(https://graphics.cg.uni-saarland.de/2013/xml3djs-architecture-of-a-polyfill-implementation-of-xml3d/).
-- The "Declarative image processing" paper explains all the advantages 
one gets from exposing processing elements to the DOM instead of 
implementing them only in some JS libraries 
(https://graphics.cg.uni-saarland.de/2013/declarative-ar-and-image-processing-on-the-web-with-xflow/).
-- And the 2012 paper on "XFlow" shows this usage for animation 
(https://graphics.cg.uni-saarland.de/2012/xflow-declarative-data-processing-for-the-web/)

Getting into a constructive discussion with some of these three.js 
people would be a good thing. I tried to find an email address for the 
polymer-threejs person but could not find any. Feel free to farward this 
email to him (and maybe others). I would love to get their feedback and 
engage in discussions.


Best,

	Philipp

Am 02.11.2013 00:38, schrieb Toni Alatalo:
> Apparently some three.js user/dev has gotten inspired by WebComponents &
> the Polymeer and written https://github.com/kaosat-dev/polymer-threejs :)
>
> Now another guy has continued with
> https://github.com/JoshGalvin/three-polymer — there’s a demo of custom
> element (‘spinner’), similar to the Door case discussed here earlier.
>
> Had a brief chat with him, will return to this later but was fun to see
> the minimal webgl web component example there as that has been in our
> agenda.
>
> ~Toni
>
> 01:01 *<* galv*>* https://github.com/JoshGalvin/three-polymer added
> support for more basic geometry types
> 01:02 *<* galv*>* Going to do materials next
> 01:25 *<* *antont**>* galv: hee - are you aware of these btw?
> http://www.w3.org/community/declarative3d/ , e.g.
> https://github.com/xml3d/xml3d.js
> 01:27 *<* galv*>* yeah, different level of abstraction
> 01:27 *<* *antont**>* perhaps
> 01:28 *<* galv*>* I expect people to wrap up their game objects
> 01:28 *<* galv*>* aka "spinner"
> 01:28 *<* galv*>* (index.html)
> 01:29 *<* *antont**>* we've been also planning to enable saying things
> like <door> if that's what you mean
> 01:30 *<* *antont**>* right, seems like the same idea
> 01:31 *<* *antont**>* very cool to see, gotta check the codes etc later
> .. but sleep now, laters
>
>
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