Final Year Project

Project Description

The aim of this project is to create a web based 3D renderer that is capable of taking input as an online file and producing a rendered 3D image in a browser environment. The user should be able to interact with the model in ways specified in the file.

Explanation

Todays 'mid spec' computer is (around) a pIII 600 or equivalent. This processing power is often put to little use except during multimedia applications such as games or processes involving video. The introduction of high bandwidth connections is slowly happening, but a large proportion - possible the majority have modem connections. The internet caters for this by using lossy compression and limiting use of pictures in web pages. The aim of this project is to create a program / plugin capable of displaying high quality pictures at the expense of processor time instead of download time.

A side affect and obvious extension to just being able to display an individual image, is that the user can interact with the model thus behavior can be defined in the source file and be implemented at negegible extra download cost. A vurtur extension of creating animation may be possible depending on time / performance.

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