HELP! * GREEN=global GREY=local Global HTML version of Foils prepared 4 April 1996

Foil 54 Possible Uses of VRML in Education

From Web Technologies for Education Workshop on Education and Training Technology -- NIST -- 25 March 1996. 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)
  • Experts can add insight as to why things are what they are!
VRML is 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
  • We use Java client/server agents to generate VRML on the fly
VRML 2.0 will allow projects like Argonne Labspace to produce collaborative televirtual environments
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 Tue Feb 18 1997