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Foil 24 Future Web Technologies: VRML

From Introduction to World Wide Web (WWW) ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken *

1 VRML is a computer graphics language for describing 3-Dimensional scenes. It was developed as a standard for the WWW from OpenInventor of SGI.
2 VRML includes language elements for creating simple shapes, various lighting effects, applying textures to shapes, and various points of view (referred to as cameras).
3 A VRML enabled browser will recogize VRML files of the form file.wrl, and create an interface where the user has controls to fly through space and examine objects.
4 Objects within a VRML scene may be configured as URL links to other Web pages of any document type.
5 VRML documents are huge - most serious current drawback to using VRML more widely on the Web is the slow download time.
6 New versions of VRML include motion in the scenes.

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