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Foil 10 Future Work

From Terrain Rendering and GIS using Java and VRML Rome Lab Quarterly Review for CIV -- June 28 96. by Paul Coddington, Alvin Leung, Krysztof Walczak, Byeongsoeb Ki *

VRML is too limited for this application
Sun and SGI are developing Java3D, a set of libraries and APIs which will merge and extend Java and VRML for 3D rendering applications
Java3D will allow programming of additional capabilities, and downloading of compressed binary data which can be converted to VRML format on the client side
Java3D is based on Inventor, but wonít be available until end of 1996 - in the meantime, we can develop new capabilities using our Web Inventor browser



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