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Foil 66 Billboard Node

From VRML 2 Basic Concepts and Definitions CPS616 -- Information Track of CPS -- Spring Semester 98. by Zeynep Ozdemir, Rob Baker, Meryem Ispirli, Geoffrey C. Fox

VRML2.0 Example of Billboard Group
1 The Billboard is a group node.
2 The billboard coordinate system is automatically rotated so that the shapes in the group as a unit always turn to face the viewer, even as the viewer moves around the group. This effect is called as billboarding.
3 This can be used to define an advertisement billboard which always turn to face the viewer.
  • Billboard { addChildren # eventIn MFNode removeChildren # eventIn MFNode axisOfRotation 0 1 0 # exposedField SFVec3f children [] # exposedField MFNode bboxCenter 0 0 0 # field SFVec3f bboxSize -1 -1 -1 # field SFVec3f }

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