Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Procedia Engineering 15 (2011) 3169 3173 Advanced in Control Engineeringand Information Science The Application of the Three-dimensional Display Technology in the Website Construction Min Wang* School of Design & Arts, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, 333403, China Abstract With the rapid development of the product industry and popularity of the Internet, the distribution through the network has become a trend. This paper introduced the popular three-dimensional display technology into the ceramic products industry, and, through the comparison of the traditional display technology and the threedimensional display technology, illustrated the practicality of the three-dimensional display technology in the ceramic industry, helping many companies and businesses show their products more realistic to users. 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of [CEIS 2011] Key words: The Three-dimensional Display; Website construction; Ceramic Products; Cult3D 1. Introduction With the rapid development of the product industry and popularity of the Internet, the distribution through the network has become a trend. How to show the products more realistic to users remains a problem to many companies and businesses. Therefore, this paper proposed the display platform of WEB3D products based on the virtual reality technique which would be able to give more business opportunities. In the current fierce market competition, how to use modern advanced information technology to change the traditional display model, and to use virtual products to replace real products, through effective interactive means to understand customer needs, to improve customer satisfaction so as * Corresponding author. Tel.: +86-138-798-86075; fax: +86-798-848-7381. E-mail address: 441683121@qq.com. 1877-7058 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2011.08.595 Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.
3170 Min Wang / Procedia Engineering 15 (2011) 3169 3173 to stimulate customers to purchase to create more value for the society and companies, has become a top priority [1]. 2. The concept of Three-dimensional Products Display Since 1989 when Jaron Lanier from VPL Research in the United States raised the concept of Virtual Reality (Abbr. VR), with ten years of development, the virtual reality technology has been gradually into our lives.virtual Reality, involving computer graphics, human computer interaction, artificial intelligence and other disciplines, is an integrated technology, aiming at using a computer to generate a realistic threedimensional world with vision, hearing, touch, smell and other senses. In the past few years, domestic and foreign research institutions have invested a great deal of manpower and material resources in the development of the virtual reality system, and for this reason, the virtual reality technology has developed so rapidly and has penetrated into various fields. Among them, the application of VR in the fields of e- commerce and virtual products display is considered to be an important direction of development [2]. 3. The Comparison of the Traditional Three-dimensional Display Technology and the Threedimensional Display in the Website Design The difficulty of products is how to input product information, including shape, structure and function. With the society progress, and the improvement of people's living standards, the pursuit of perfection has become fashionable. The completeness of basic functions of consumer products is not the only requirement, and the aesthetic appearance is also focused. When the functions are continuously enhanced, the demand on appearance is increasingly critical, so companies tend to diversify the products appearance. In the traditional display system, products of the same series and the same type but different shapes (such as surface, structure, color, etc.) need to be taken a lot of photos to show the full range of products to enable customers to learn more about products. However, it not only wastes a lot of manpower, but also pictures take up a lot of data storage space, so do videos. Using Flash to display products requires inputting the information of product appearance, but there is no effective means of support, and only the two-dimensional display effect can be achieved. This paper selected the current popular Cult3D as a development tool, using the object-oriented programming method to develop a three-dimensional display system with simple operation, powerful functions, and advanced technology. The display system is divided into two parts for corporate users and enterprise customers. Users complete data input, modeling and results saving; customers display products based on the stored data. The following Table 1 shows comparison of several means. Table 1. The Comparison of Display Types Type File Size Operability Consumed Time Achieved Effect Picture Display Large Poor Long Two-dimensional Flash Display Small Good Long Two-dimensional Video Display Large Poor Long Three-dimensional Three-dimensional Products Display Small Good Short Three-dimensional Cult3D is new Wed3D technology launched by Cycore Company in Swedish, and it aims at creating interactive 3D objects on webpage, which uses Java technology to achieve the Web3D goal. With Java s good performance of cross-platform, Cult3D objects can be displayed on most system platforms and web
Min Wang / Procedia Engineering 15 (2011) 3169 3173 3171 browsers smoothly, and does not require special hardware support. Among many Web3D technologies, Cult3D has many advantages, making it more suitable for the development of three-dimensional tasks on the Internet. Cult3D consists of three different program functions - Cult3D Exporter plug-in, Cult3D Designer and the Cult3D Viewer plug-in [3]. Web designers can use 3DSMAX or MAYA which is widely used in 3D design to design3d models of products. Cult3D Exporter plug-in is used to convert design models, the interactive, audio and other effects are added to models in Cult3D Designer, and then seamlessly embedded into HTML webpage and other applications. Only by installing Cult3D Viewer plug-in, users can not only watch 3D models online generated by the Cult3D technology in real time, but also rotate, zoom in or out them with the mouse, so that viewers can really feel the related attributes of objects [4]. 4. A Three-dimensional Display Case of Ceramic Products Take ceramic tableware to illustrate the application of the Cult3D technology in the three-dimensional display of ceramic products. Fig. 1. (a) Tableware Modeling; (b) Model Picture Fig. 2. (a) Tableware Modeling; (b) Model Picture
3172 Min Wang / Procedia Engineering 15 (2011) 3169 3173 4.1. Product Modeling 3DS MAX, commonly used among three-dimensional modeling software, can be installed with Cult3D plug-in Cult3D Exporter. After modeling, the model can be exported and saved as the C3D file. Alternatively, the three-dimensional measurement can be done on real ceramic tableware with measuring devices (such as laser scanners or coordinate measuring machines, etc.) to obtain measurement data and generate the model of ceramic tableware through data processing and surface reconstruction, shown as Figure 1.(a). 4.2. Pictures Processing Use a digital camera to take pictures of or use a two-dimensional scanner to scan the pictures of ceramic tableware to obtain photographic images of teapots, and import the image file into Photoshop for processing [5]. Process the pictures of the ceramic tableware models in 3DS MAX, and paste the image file output by Photoshop to the three-dimensional model. See Figure 1.(b), the original real texture and pattern can be restored. 4.3. File Exportation With Cult3D Exporter plug-in, export the three-dimensional model in 3DSMax as the.c3d file, and import the.c3d file into Cult3D Designer. Add various events in Cult3D Designer to trigger and control actions, such as rotation, translation, zoom in or out, etc., and give real texture, environment, lighting and so on to make it have texture, color, pattern, reflection, projection and the relationship among black white and grey in the real world, shown as Figure 2.(a). 4.4. Product Post Save the obtained model as the Cult3D project (.c3p) file, finally release the Internet file, and create a.co file. Embed the file into HTML page with the web development tool, Macromedia Dreamweaver(. Only by installing Cult3D Viewer plug-in, web surfers just use the mouse to drag and drop objects to understand the appearance of the model from different angles. Through the actions of rotation, translation, zoom in or out, background change, and son on, surfers can feel the real property related to objects, shown as Figure 2.(b). 5. Conclusion With the continuous development of the virtual reality technology, companies apply the online threedimensional display form to sell products, overmatching two-dimensional images incomparably.the three-dimensional form shows the full range of the appearance and structure of products, and combined with the interactive operations and display function, it makes full use of the Internet advantage of rapid spread to promote products [6]. Through interactive observation and operation, customers can also have a more comprehensive and profound understanding of products and the purchase chance will substantially be increase, bringing more profits for enterprises[7]. Acknowledgements
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