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This presentation was given by [http://cleung.wordpress.com/ Catherine Leung] who is a professor at Seneca College in the School of Computer Studies, where she teaches in the game development and programming areas. Cathy's talk was about a project she has been working on called [http://www.c3dl.org c3DLC3DL]. C3DL is a JavaScript library that will provide a set of classes for rendering 3D objects in the browser. Currently it requires an up to date browser such as Firefox 3.5 in order to run. Cathy demonstrated an application called Motionview which allows previewing of raw motion capture data in the browser. The purpose of Motionview is to reduce the expensive cost of 'clean up' in motion capture animation scenes when sometimes certain points in the animation are wrong.<br />

blahThe most obvious comparison that can be observed from these two talks is how new strides are being made in the ability to create highly enriched content for the web. The ties of these two projects to open source is also something to take notice of. Both of these projects rely on an open source community to help contribute, test, develop for , and maintain. Both presenters focused on the importance of community in open source projects, the ability for people to give back to the community to keep it healthy, and on how taking part in the community helps raise awareness for these projects which will ultimately create a richer and fuller web experience.<br />