Visualizing information using SVG and X3D
Subtitle: XML-based technologies for the XML-based Web
By: Vladimir Geroimenko and Chaomei Chen (eds).
Contributors: Geroimenko, Vladimir, 1955-; Chen, Chaomei, 1960-
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Computer graphics; SVG (Document markup language); XML (Document markup language); Semantic Web; Information visualization
Description: Correcting the Great Mistake People often mistake one thing for another. That’s human nature. However, one would expect the leaders in a particular ?eld of endeavour to have superior ab- ities to discriminate among the developments within that ?eld. That is why it is so perplexing that the technology elite – supposedly savvy folk such as software developers, marketers and businessmen – have continually mistaken Web-based graphics for something it is not. The ?rst great graphics technology for the Web,VRML,has been mistaken for something else since its inception. Viewed variously as a game system,a format for architectural walkthroughs,a platform for multi-user chat and an augmentation of reality,VRML may qualify as the least understood invention in the history of inf- mation technology. Perhaps it is so because when VRML was originally introduced it was touted as a tool for putting the shopping malls of the world online,at once prosaic and horrifyingly mundane to those of us who were developing it. Perhaps those ?rst two initials,“VR”,created expectations of sprawling,photorealistic f- tasy landscapes for exploration and play across the Web. Or perhaps the magnitude of the invention was simply too great to be understood at the time by the many, ironically even by those spending the money to underwrite its development. Regardless of the reasons,VRML suffered in the mainstream as it was twisted to meet unintended ends and stretched far beyond its limitations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: PART 1: USING SVG AND X3D IN GENERIC WEB APPLICATIONS; title: SVG and X3D in the context of the XML family and the semantic web -- Vladimir Geroimenko; title: The foundations of SVG -- Kurt Cagle; title: X3D fundamentals -- Don Brutzman ... [et al.]; title: SVG as the visual interface to web services -- Shane Aulenback; title: X3D graphics, Java and the semantic web -- James Harney ... [et al.]; title: Distributed user interfaces: toward SVG 1.2 -- Kurt Cagle; title: Publishing paradigms for X3D -- Nicholas F. Polys -- PART 2: APPLYING SVG AND X3D TO SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; title: Visualizing complex networks -- Chaomei Chen, -- Natasha Lobo; title: Applying SVG to visualization of chemical structures and reactions -- John Leaver; title: Using metadata-based SVG and X3D graphics in interactive TV -- Artur Lugmayr, -- Seppo Kalli; title: Knowledge visualization using dynamic SVG charts -- Nikolas A. Rathert; title: Using SVG and XSLT to display visually geo-referenced XML -- Timothy Adams; title: Using Adobe Illustrator to create complex SVG illustrations -- Sara Porter; title: X3D-edit authoring tool for Extensible 3D (X3D) graphics -- Don Brutzman -- Concluding remarks / -- Vladimir Geroimenko, -- Chaomei Chen.