HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared 7 April 1997

Foil 4 Overview of VRML Language Details - I

From Overview of VRML 1.0 Language with Examples CPS616 Basic Information Track for Computational Science -- Winter-Spring Semester 96 and 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Alvin Leung, Meryem Ispirli * See also color IMAGE
Addon
VRML defines scene graphs which are defined hierarchically as a set of nodes
Nodes fall into one of 36 types arranged into broad classes -- shape, geometry/material, transformation, camera, lighting, group and WWWInline
The state of a graph (color, position, rotation etc.) are "advanced" (e.g. transformation matrices are multiplied) when each node is encountered
  • separators are used to limit the effect of a given node to a block defined by {}
  • Thus the order in which nodes appear in file is very significant



Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Sun May 25 1997