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VRML and Use of Databases as backend and Application to GIS

Given by Krzysztof Walczak at ARL Database Tutorial on February 98. Foils prepared 7 October 97

Open Inventor
VRML language
VRML Browsers
Illustra Database System
Why database support for VRML ?
File based terrain rendering in VRML
Terrain rendering with Illustra database support
Objects - storing rich semantic information
Multiversion representation
Examples of VRML for Terrain Rendering

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1 VRML and Database Support
2 Topics in VRML/Illustra Tutorial
3 Open Inventor and VRML -- Introduction
4 Open Inventor -- Overview
5 Open Inventor -- Nodes
6 Open Inventor -- Database Structure
7 Open Inventor -- Typical Applications
8 VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language -- Overview
9 VRML Goals
10 VRML -- Specification
11 VRML - Language characteristics
12 Example I - Shapes
13 Example II - Properties
14 Example III - Group Nodes
15 Example IV - Textures
16 VRML - Nodes I
17 VRML - Nodes II
18 VRML - Nodes III -- Properties nodes
19 VRML - Nodes IV
20 VRML - Example
21 VRML - Tools
22 VRML - Browsers
23 VRML - Browsers II
24 VRML Browsers - Examples I -- WebSpace
25 VRML Browsers - Examples II -- SDSC WebView
26 VRML Browsers - Examples III -- VRWeb
27 VRML Browsers - Examples IV -- WebFX
28 Illustra Database System - Server
29 Illustra - Evolution in DBMS
30 Illustra Database System
Object-Relational DBMS
31 Illustra Database System - DataBlades
32 Illustra Database System
DataBlades (cont.)
33 Illustra - System Architecture
34 Illustra Database System --
2D Spatial DataBlade
35 Illustra Database System --
3D Spatial DataBlade
36 Illustra Database System
Access to the Data
37 Database Support for VRML
38 Why Database Support for VRML ?
39 Standard VRML Storage
Characteristics
40 Standard VRML Storage
Disadvantages
41 Geometrical vs. Semantical Model
42 System Architecture
43 VRML Synthesis
44 Terrain Data
45 Synthesis of Terrain Description
46 Creation of VRML files
47 VRML modeling
48 LOD - Level-Of-Detail
49 Level-Of-Detail - Example
50 Colors
51 Data Storage and Indexing
52 Reducing Number of Polygons
53 Multi Resolution Terrain Model - I
54 Multi Resolution Terrain Model- II
55 Modeling of Objects - Object Data
56 Modeling of Objects - Types
57 Definition of Objects - Example
58 Database Schema
59 Multiversion Approach
60 Multiversion Approach
61 Terrain rendering in VRML - Example I
62 Terrain rendering in VRML - Example II
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