A web architecture for progressive delivery of 3D content

In this paper a Web architecture for 3D content delivery is pre- sented. The architecture is based on a progressive compression rep- resentation integrated into the X3D framework. The architecture is designed to enhance the Internet user experience by delivering 3D content quickly, reliably, and with high quality. The progressive compressed stream enables handling 3D models containing large amounts of polygonal and textual data. At the client end the stream is progressively decoded up to the "best" level-of-details as defined by the client computational resources and the user inclination.