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Foil 23 What is Relevance of VRML(2) for Scientific Computing?

From And the Future is ........: The Use of Java and the Web in Scientific Computing Hefei Computational Science and Beijing Web Tutorial -- May 27 and 30 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

1 VRML naturally gives 3D visualization with usual Web advantage of running on PC's and Workstations
2 Its universality implies can use in industry to specify products so can design, manufacture and market from the same(related) specification
3 Should impact PDES/STEP and such industry product specification standards
4 VRML will need extension to handle this but it is a good start and allows user defined types
5 VRML and Parallel Computing?
  • Breakup up a VRML image with INLINE construct to allow parallel rendering of complex images (i.e. parallel VRML viewer)
  • Invocation of parallel simulation programs as a VRML2 Script e.g. VRML2 cars invoke parallel crash codes when they hit each other!

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