Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 23 February 97

Foil 2 Open Inventor vs. VRML

From Open Inventor Viewer for Terrain Data Rome Lab Quarterly Review for CIV -- June 28 96. by Krzysztof Walczak *

1 VRML is an ASCII description of the contents of three-dimensional virtual worlds
2 VRML has to be read into a browser to be displayed
3 VRML is based on Open Inventor ASCII file format
4 Open Inventor is a programming environment which enable displaying and manipulation of three -dimensional virtual worlds
5 This environment provides an API that allows writing any user-application in C++ or C
6 Open Inventor uses ASCII file format for exchange of description of the virtual worlds contents among applications
7 New Open Inventor 2.1 accepts VRML 1.0 syntax

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