Comment Re:Standards in 3d modelling? (Score 2, Informative) 84
Not sure if this would be of interest to you, but the person who co-created VRML, Tony Parisi, has gone on to create the X3D spec. and a plugin for your web-browser.
They've got a design studio that can import/export several different formats:
From the site: "Imports and Exports a wide variety of standard 3D file formats using the Accutrans Translator."
You can also programmatically add and control content within the rendered scene, in the web-browser, through AJAX. I was impressed with some of the samples on the site. You are required to install a plugin, but it's pretty painless. I thought it was rather fun to hack a little javascript and make stuff move around in 3d within the browser.
It's also open source: http://www.mediamachines.com/fluxsource/index.htm
