best language for 3D manipulation over web ?

[Jeff Sandys]

Alice is a 3d navigator, don't know if it will work for your app though.
http://www.alice.org

"Jacqueline L. Spiegel" wrote:
> 
> 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