VoxML: A Visualization Modeling Language
This work addresses the need for more expressive semantic modeling in 3D visualization for systems and platforms, though it appears incremental as it builds upon existing markup languages.
The authors tackled the problem of limited semantic knowledge encoding in existing 3D visual markup languages by developing VoxML, a modeling language that encodes semantic knowledge of real-world objects, events, and attributes, enabling multimodal simulations of real-world scenarios.
We present the specification for a modeling language, VoxML, which encodes semantic knowledge of real-world objects represented as three-dimensional models, and of events and attributes related to and enacted over these objects. VoxML is intended to overcome the limitations of existing 3D visual markup languages by allowing for the encoding of a broad range of semantic knowledge that can be exploited by a variety of systems and platforms, leading to multimodal simulations of real-world scenarios using conceptual objects that represent their semantic values.