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Foil 63 Terrain rendering in VRML -- VRML modeling

From IBM Tutorial on Web Technology for HPCC IBM Poughkeepsie -- February 7 1996. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
The following VRML structures are used to model the terrain data:
  • - IndexedFaceSet - basic shape representing the surface,
  • - Multivalued Material nodes - define colors of points,
  • - LOD - Level-Of-Detail node - specifies portions of data to be
  • loaded with different resolution levels depending on the
  • distance from the viewpoint,
  • - WWWInline enables loading of scene in portions,
  • - WWWAnchor - allows linking with HTML description pages
  • - DirectionalLight - lighting in the scene.
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