A canvas based 3d system is really exciting because it raises the possibility of doing something like Elite with a simple webserver setup.
Imagine the possibilities of this 3d engine tied to some AJAX! Awesome.
But it's not just games. This could have immediate applications really quickly. Lots of physical parts systems, inventories of automobile parts for example, rely on being able to identify one object over another. Sometimes the objects are incredibly similar: two slightly different kinds of sparkplug for example.
Right now this canvas based tool could plug that data into a webpage and let people visualize it.
And we're not even mentioning new applications. Network and application topologies could be rendered in 3d and be much easier to understand.
Whoa.
Nic Ferrier