best language for 3D manipulation over web ?

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An apllet by itself will render incredibly slow...  Anyone who says
differently hasn't really done it.  JAVA awt and swing are very slow at
drawing them selves.  You best bet is to use the applet with the java 3D
API's to use Open GL.  The down side is the client will need some form of
Open GL on the machine.  Not usually a problem though.  Most new machine
have it.

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out!!!!!!!!!!!!! e-commerce/Internet privacy and security is an illusion.
Its all public whether we like it or not.

"Jacqueline L. Spiegel" <jackie at popmail.med.nyu.edu> wrote in message
news:PctR6.3$jC6.216 at typhoon.nyu.edu...
>
> Hi All,
>
> I will be writing a program that needs to be accessible over the web that
> will seek to manipulate objects in three dimensions through the access of
an
> oracle database.  I could be manipulating as much as 32 MB of memory (with
> respect to data only)  in space.   I would also need to slice and
> interpolate information on the fly.  I am a Java programmer, but my fear
is
> that Java is not as fast as it should be in order to handle such
> manipulation (assume users have at least a T1/cable modem connection, and
> are not going in by 56K modem)
>
> What is the best language for this ( I will need to do GUI programming as
> well).
>
> Although I am really comfortable with Java and prefer to go this route, I
am
> wondering if there is a better and faster way (I feel that Java is slow in
> general, even for 2D).   If you recommend another language, can you please
> recommend which 3D library and GUI library that I would use, as well as
> explaining how I (or the language's API) connects to the web browser  ?
I
> am not experienced with "Applet" creation outside of the Java language.
>
> You attention is greatly appreciated with regard to this matter.
>
> CC-ing email to jackie at popmail.med.nyu.edu, would also
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jacqueline
>
>
>