Copernicus: 3D Wikipedia

  • Authors:
  • Jacek Jankowski

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 posters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper we present one of the potential paths of the evolution of Wikipedia towards Web 3.0. We introduce Copernicus - The Virtual 3D Encyclopedia, which was built according to 2-Layer Interface Paradigm (2LIP). The background layer of the 2LIP-type user interface is a 3D scene, which a user cannot directly interact with. The foreground layer is HTML content. Only taking an action on this content (e.g. pressing a hyperlink) can affect the 3D scene.