VoxML: A Visualization Modeling Language

TL;DR

VoxML is a modeling language designed to encode semantic knowledge of 3D objects, events, and attributes, enabling richer multimodal simulations of real-world scenarios across various platforms.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive semantic encoding framework for 3D models, overcoming limitations of existing visual markup languages.

Findings

Enables semantic-rich 3D object representations

Supports multimodal simulation of real-world scenarios

Broadens applicability across systems and platforms

Abstract

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.