Anton's Research Ramblings

WebGL Things

Building Modelling/Visualisation Project

Our building visualisation research project is winding down. There are a few bits and pieces that I want to play with before it finishes. First of all, we have a little page of demos/experiments from various stages. I keep losing the URL when people ask so I'm pasting it here as a self-reminder: http://phaedrus.scss.tcd.ie/buildviz/demo/. Here's my TODO list:

• Get some experience with the glTF file format (not just for WebGL).
• Get touch-screen web DOM functionality working, see if this means I can magically run WebGL nicely on Android, and never need to use the horrific ADT/NDK kits ever again (hopefully)
• Look at doing a reliable IFC file → webgl 3d conversion system
• We're supposed to do some sort of formal evaluation. Need a decent plan for that.
• Document everything so that future generations may learn from our mistakes (and also have a set of instructions for doing all of this stuff). I'm particularly interested in documenting shader tricks and mesh file formats.

Other Stuff Going On

I've nearly nearly nearly finished my OpenGL tutorials book. Basically I want to publish a cheap lab manual that is small and practical, without any high-level frameworky stuff obscuring the details. So just an eBook version of my tutorials, as well as some more practical "building a bigger one" chapters, and some honest opinions on what I've found to be flakey or unreliable across implementations (a lot). If I can find a more simplified way to talk about loading skinned meshes then I think it will be really useful.