rest3d update :: asset browser prototyping presented 11/07/2012 at the San Francisco webGL meetup

1. Rest3D update
(for webGL meetup)
Nov 2012
Rémi Arnaud
AMD

2. Rest APIs are fueling the web ecosystem
Graph API

3. What about 3D?

4. RESTful Principles
 Build on http protocol [get/put/post/delete]
 Addressable resources – resources can be accessed via a URI
 Uniform & constrained interface – small set of well-defined methods to manipulate resources
 Representation oriented – different platforms need different formats:
 Communicate statelessly – Stateless applications are easier to scale
 Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State (HATEOAS) – let your data formats drive state
transitions in your applications

5. Accessing 3D assets on the web (no API)
browse

6. Accessing 3D assets on the web (no API)
Search

7. Accessing 3D assets on the web (no API)
Download

8. Accessing 3D assets on the web (no API)
Import / analysis / fix / combine

9. Accessing 3D assets on the web (no API)
export/convert and serve

10. Accessing 3D assets on the web (no API)
Serving the content
 Your on your own, since there is no rest-3d services !

11. Architecture
Client
(browser)
Server
(http)
REST-3D

12. Prototype implementation
Server
REST-3D
Node.js
http
Server
BaseX
XML
DB
Browser
WebGL
viewer
Qooxdoo
UI
MVC
COLLADA
Images
Shaders

13. Case study – rest3D viewer
browse/search/analyse/view
 rest3d/assets : returns list of assets
 What is an asset? What is the asset URI? How are they organized?
 rest3d/search : return assets matching with search
 What are the search criteria?
 rest3d/assets/path/asset: return a particular asset
 Source asset? Processed asset? For what platform/software ?
 rest3d/asset/path/asset?build-options
 Control server-side content pipeline
Note: this is not the rest3D API, examples used for illustration

14. Rest3d prototyping app

15. Thanks
 Check the blog:
 www.rest3d.org
 Join the discussion:
 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/3d-rest