028 – MIX07 – Turning The Pages – 3D Books

Michael, Mark and Alex

Designing and delivering 3D solutions on the Web
Having a widely deployed full 3D platform which can be hosted in the browser allows for a new range of internet accessible applications. The British Library’s implementation partners (Armadillo Systems and Shaxam) built the next-generation treasure book reading experience to the web with the launch of Vista. This session will discuss the designer-developer workflow that was used (from 3D models in Lightwave to Expression Blend to Visual Studio and then deployment into a live server-farm implementation). It will also cover their use of Silverlight to drive wider platform adoption as well as the decisions they made and the things they learnt along the way.

This is podcast #28 – I’m talking to the team behind the British Library’s Turning The Page project. These are the chaps who have put many of the books listed below “on-line” with some really impressive 3D graphics. It’s a rather short podcast – the chaps had places to go, etc. I recommend that you watch the You Tube video below and visit some of the web sites that I list below too. It was an awesome demonstration of graphical power…and all served up via the Internet and Silverlight.

Jane Austen’s History of England, Elizabeth Blackwell’s Curious Herbal, William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (in production), Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, The Diamond Sutra, The Golden Hagadah, The Golf Book, James Joyce Ulysses (No. 1 of the first edition), James Joyce Paris and Pola Commonplace Books, James Joyce notebooks used in the creation of Ulysses, Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel, The Lindsfarne Gospels, The Luttrell Psalter, Magna Carta (in production), The Mercator Atlas of Europe, Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue (in production), The Sforza Hours, The Sherborne Missal, Stars of Science, Sultan Baybars’ Qur’an, Vesalius’ De Humanis Corporis Fabrica, The Wellcome Apocalypse, Robert Willan’s On Cutaneous Diseases, WB Yeats Rapallo notebooks (in production)

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