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 |