Using Semantics to Manage 3D Scenes in Web Platforms

Abstract

Computer graphics has widely spread out into various computer applications. After the early wire-frame computer generated images of the 60s, spatial representation of objects improved in the 70s with Boundary Representation (B-Rep) modeling, Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) objects, and free-form surfaces. Realistic rendering in the 90s, taking into account sophisticated dynamic interactions (between objects or between objects and human actors, physical interactions with light, etc.) now make 3D-scenes much better than simple 3D representations of the real world. Indeed, they are a way to conceive products (industrial products, art products, etc.) and to modify them over time, either interactively or by simulation of physical phenomena (Faux and Ellis Horwood Ltd. & Pratt, 1979; Feiner & Foley, 1990; Mortenson, 1985).