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AVS or IRIS Explorer may be used to generate a polygon set and then use SGI's Performer to do the fly-through. The Onyx system has 3D texture memory and can render voxel data in real time
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OPEN GL - this is the industry standard 3D API (building the texture data, coloring, rendering)
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OPEN INVENTOR is built on top of OpenGL -
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Object-oriented 3D toolkit to create interactive 3D graphics applications
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Node: surface, material, shape, geometric information, light
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VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language - interpreted language
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Based on the Open Inventor ASCII file format (minimal operational subset of Open Inventor)
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Language for describing multi-participant interactive simulations - virtual worlds networked by global Internet
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Versions 1.0, 1.1available now. Version 2.0 expected in May 96
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Animation, behavior, interaction will be included in version 2.0
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Browsers: WebSpace, WebView (source available), WebFX, VRWeb, etc...
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Modelers: WebSpace Author, World Builder, etc...
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