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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 *

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



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