Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Using SVG and X3D in Generic Web Applications

   1. SVG and X3D in the Context of the XML Family and the Semantic Web

      • Vladimir Geroimenko

      Pages 3-20

   2. The Foundations of SVG

      • Kurt Cagle

      Pages 21-62

   3. X3D Fundamentals

      • Don Brutzman, James Harney, Curt Blais

      Pages 63-84

   4. SVG as the Visual Interface to Web Services

      • Shane Aulenback

      Pages 85-98

   5. X3D Graphics, Java and the Semantic Web

      • James Harney, Curt Blais, Alan Hudson, Don Brutzman

      Pages 99-118

   6. Distributed User Interfaces: Toward SVG 1.2

      • Kurt Cagle

      Pages 119-152

   7. Publishing Paradigms for X3D

      • Nicholas F. Polys

      Pages 153-180

3. Applying SVG and X3D to Specific Problems

   1. Visualizing Complex Networks

      • Chaomei Chen, Natasha Lobo

      Pages 183-201

   2. Applying SVG to Visualization of Chemical Structures and Reactions

      • John Leaver

      Pages 202-224

   3. Using Metadata-based SVG and X3D Graphics in Interactive TV

      • Artur Lugmayr, Seppo Kalli

      Pages 225-244

   4. Knowledge Visualization Using Dynamic SVG Charts

      • Nikolas A. Rathert

      Pages 245-255

   5. Using SVG and XSLT to Display Visually Geo-referenced XML

      • Timothy Adams

      Pages 256-265

   6. Using Adobe Illustrator to Create Complex SVG Illustrations

      • Sara Porter

      Pages 266-284

   7. X3D-Edit Authoring Tool for Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics

      • Don Brutzman

      Pages 285-292

   8. Concluding Remarks Vladimir Geroimenko and Chaomei Chen

      Pages 293-294

4. Back Matter

   Pages 295-298

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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.

• 3D
• Augmented Reality
• Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
• Java
• SVG
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• Semantic Web
• X3D
• XML
• XSLT
• computer graphics
• graphics
• user interface
• visualization
• web services

• School of Computing, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

  Vladimir Geroimenko

• College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

  Chaomei Chen

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