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Foil 85 VRML -- Specification

From A Tutorial on Base Web Technologies CRPC Annual Meeting/NASA Langley/Trip to China -- May 14-17 June 10-13 1996 July 12-18 1996. by Geoffrey Fox


1 The current version of VRML specification - 1.0 is a minimal starting point for a much larger concept.
2 The specification is based on Open Inventor ASCII file format.
3 VRML 1.0 is a subset of Open Inventor with some additions that allow linking the objects with another VRML or HTML sites on the Web. The linking concept is similar to HREF in HTML.
4 VRML 1.0 provides only mechanisms for synthetic 3D "clickable worlds" and does not specify yet any constructs for object animation, behavior and interaction. These issues are currently under intense discussion by the VRML forum (and spinoffs such as VAG) and is included in version 2.0 of the language.

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