Kaon Activate! - 3D for Java enabled platforms

[Valan]

High quality interactive 3D can be shown and produced on any Java enabled platform.

Download Activate! from
www.Koan.com

Good example:
3D Bra

[Valan]

A more helpful link:
http://www.kaon.com/activate/install/activate.html

[boing]

I'm having a mixed reaction.

That 3D bra demo was pretty cool.  I spent 30 minutes trying to look down her bra.  Only then did I realize I could look try to rotate through the rear of her chest.  But still no joy.  Then I noticed the "HOOK" gadget on the right, and finally managed to get the bra off.  I'm getting rusty.
 
 The Samsung TV demo was prety cool for 3 reasons: rotation while the DVD tray was moving and being able to make out some text on the back of the TV after zooming in.  The butterfly image stayed clear considering everything.
 
 Other than that, it was slow as GW.  It's very novel, but shows that Java is not a reasonable way to spend your processor cycles.  It chewed up a lot of cycles to do very little.  If this is the future of AmigaDE (whatever it's called this year) then I say forget it.3D Bra Removal Demo

[Valan]

Hi Boing,
What system are you using?
It looks fine and moves well on an 800mhz iMac and PC.
And I think the Windows slows down Java here. Possible?
AOS4 should work very nicely though.

Valan

[Hattig]

Well, Java has a 3D API that uses any hardware accelleration if it is available. It seemed pretty smooth to me here considering that the model looked to have a pretty high polygon count (with all those curves and stuff).

Still, it is only a Java applet, nothing amazingly special.

[Will]

Do you have any more info on the 3D API?

A curious Will

[ensu]

Don't forget that AmigaDE apps are running 'native' (no matter if written in C, VP or Java) while Java applets have to be 'interpreted' or just-in-time-compiled. Once loaded the performance of AmigaDE apps is similar to other nativ apps :-)

ciao...