[vtkusers] displaying 3D on the web

[Eric Engelhard]

Thanks, Sebastian. It was trivial to output to X3D with vtkX3DExporter
and view with FreeWRL, but I will have to replace that great
vtkBalloonWidget functionality with fixed text. 

Cheers!
Eric Engelhard

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:44:03PM -0400, Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
> VRML/X3D should be reliable enough if you do have a static 3D scene.
> 
> Seb
> 
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Eric Engelhard <ekengelhard at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am representing a data set as grid of 3D actors in the x-y plane. I
> > am using color like a heat map, but also using z-position to emphasize
> > data points of interest as well as vtkBalloonWidget to display text
> > information for each object. Ultimately, I would like to serve the
> > images and texts via the web. Is there an obviously superior solution?
> > How viable is VRML/X3D?  Or would it be better to serve up static
> > views with accompanying image maps? Is there a standard method for
> > recovering image/window-based coordinates of each object?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Eric Engelhard
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