3D Repo Android app press release

LONDON, UK — 3DRepo​.org is pleased to an­nounce the re­lease of its 3D Repo An­droid app in the Google Play Mar­ket. 3D Repo app is a light-​​weight open source cli­ent that en­ables you to view, share and an­not­ate 3D mod­els stored in the 3D Repo cloud any­where on the go. Con­nect to a re­mote re­pos­it­ory to visu­al­ize and an­not­ate vir­tual designs and their in­di­vidual re­vi­sions dur­ing the de­vel­op­ment and re­view stages of your project.

This app was de­veloped as part of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Sym­posium on Apps sub­mis­sion Visu­al­iz­ing 3D Mod­els in Aid of Pub­lic Con­sulta­tion: http://www.siggraph.org/asia2012/symposium-detail?id=100–749&session=soa and is re­leased free of charge un­der the open source 3D Repo pro­ject at Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Lon­don (UCL). This pro­ject is sponsored by Arup Foresight and the UK EPSRC-​​funded En­gin­eer­ing Doc­tor­ate Centre in Vir­tual En­vir­on­ments, Ima­ging and Visu­al­isa­tion (EP/​G037159/​1).

3D Repo™ is a non-​​linear re­vi­sion con­trol frame­work built around a do­main spe­cific data­base, a.k.a. 3D re­pos­it­ory. The role of the re­pos­it­ory is to store 3D as­sets and to provide in­ter­faces and con­ven­tions to add, modify and ex­tract delta changes on them. By sup­port­ing stand­ard web-​​​​accessible front-​​​​ends, it en­ables con­nec­tions to mod­el­ing pack­ages via in­ter­me­di­ary tools, or simply to a viewer that visu­al­izes se­lec­ted re­vi­sion from the DB. Con­flict res­ol­u­tion is achieved via a unique visual 3D Diff tool which high­lights in­com­pat­ible edits and of­fers quick merge sug­ges­tions. Fur­ther­more, the frame­work sup­ports re­trieval of any full or par­tial re­vi­sion that can be ex­por­ted as a new 3D file.

Im­ages: http://​3drepo​.org/​w​p​-​c​o​n​t​e​n​t​/​u​p​l​o​a​d​s​/​2​0​1​2​/​1​1​/​p​r​e​s​s​-​p​a​c​k​.​zip