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Foil 10 Possible Uses of VRML in NHSE

From Possible Roles of new Web technologies in the NHSE NHSE Review -- 25 January 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
VRML allows user annotated 3D visualizations so that you can explain features of results of simulation in a universal fashion which can be viewed on any machine
  • e.g. click on "cloud" and get informations on humidity, fluid velocity etc. (this could be generated automatically)
Very good GIS (Geographical Information System) technology and can be used by NASA/EPA etc for presentation of spatial data with again clickable annotations
VRML is currently and perhaps intrinsically (numbers ascii) inefficient and Java is alternative / augmentation technology
  • Use Java client/server agents to generate VRML on the fly on client
  • See NPAC Visible Human Viewer
VRML 2.0 will allow projects like Argonne Labspace to produce collaborative televirtual environments

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