After seeing the WebSpace demo running at Internet World in
San Jose this week, I am definately interested in the vrml
language/standard/spec(?).
I am a consultant working at Illustra Information Technologies
(<a href="http://www.illustra.com">http://www.illustra</a>)
- an object-relational database company who build the Illustra
database which handles complex data and queries.
One of the things we have is a 3D-spatial datablade which allows
storage of 3D spatial co-ordinates and operations on them from
industry standard SQL.
Seeing the demo made me think of a plethora of possibilities if
3D-spatial data stored in the database could be viewed on-line on the
Web!
Illustra handles other complex data such as images, sounds, timeseries,
and document.
Imagine a dynamically generated web page consisting of images, formatted
text, OLE enabled Microsft Word document pointers and a 3D representation
of stock market data as a timeseries that could be traversed in 3D!
That sort of vision could be made possible with the integration of complex
data and complex query functions available with Illustra.
We already have dynamic generation of HTML from the database based on
contents of tables. Is there any effort underway to do a similar thing
with VRML from any sort of data repository?
Sean Riley