“Today at Siggraph 2000 in New Orleans, Flatland Online
announced that it has released the source code of its 3DML
platform. 3DML (Three Dimensional Markup Language) is a 3D web
publishing format that empowers webmasters to easily create
visually compelling rich media web pages (called “Spots”). Flatland
also announced www.3DML.org will serve as the central source of
information for updates and future releases.”
“Flatland was founded on the spirit of community development
which spawned the Internet in the first place,” explained Michael
Powers, CEO of Flatland Online. “Releasing the source code for 3DML
will encourage the creative involvement of graphics engineers and
Internet developers in extending the easiest Web 3D format.”
“In an ongoing effort to foster developer and builder
expansion of 3DML, the release of the 3DML source code follows the
release earlier this year of Flatland’s Blockset format. The
Flatland Blocksets comprise the building blocks of this easy to
learn web 3D format. Now Flatland builders can build 3DML spots
based on blocksets of their own design. “As the builders became
more savvy with 3DML, they began asking for access to build their
own blocksets. So we gave it to them! The strength of 3DML is in
the dedication of the builders, who have truly committed their time
and energy into expanding the creative and technical potential of
3DML. We fully expect that enthusiasm to carry over into the realm
of 3DML software and tools development.”