Development Plan

[gjcope]

Hey @vincentmarchetti and anyone else interested in development on this project, can we check in here on plans and who is working on what? Just want to make sure we are all making the best use of our efforts!

[vincentmarchetti]

I am working on coordinate conversion code : code that will convert positions and orientations (rotation angles) between the IIIF coordinate system (Y up, Z front) and the Blender coordinate system (Z UP, -Y "front"). The goal will be to support placing Models in the place and orientation according to Blender coordinate, then export correct IIIIF coordinates to manifest. Likewise, when a manifest is imported the IIIF coordinates will be converted from IIIF coodinates to Blender to place the painting annotations in the Blender. The assumed context is that the glTF importer in Blender does the conversion of mesh coordinates in the gltf geometry. IIIF coordinates follow same convention as glTF coordinate system.

Work is being done in branch coordinate-system branch of vincentmarchetti/iiif_3d_blender_plugin. A pull-request will be submitted when appropriate