X3D is the ISO-standard scene-graph language for interactive 3D graphics on the Web. A newcourse is available for teaching the fundamentals of 3D graphics using Extensible 3D (X3D). Resourcesinclude a detailed textbook, an authoring tool, hundreds of example scenes, and detailed slidesets coveringeach chapter. The published book is commercially available, while all other course-module resources areprovided online free under open-source licenses. Numerous other commercial and open resources areavailable for X3D, which also serves as an interchange format. The supported course has been taught formany years, successfully introducing masters’ students to the principles and techniques of 3D graphicswithout requiring programming experience. This course is now ready for undergraduate use. Expressing3D graphics modeling within the domain of Extensible Markup Language (XML) for the Web is novel andhas the potential to open up computer graphics to many new practitioners. This combined resource isintended broadly support computer graphics education and 3D skills for web authors.
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