3D Computer Graphics :: VRML

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

References | Specs | Browsers | Tools | Misc | Worlds

		References
		The VRML Consortium. The VRML Repository [mirrors : Italy, Autralia, Switzerland] VRML @ Yahoo. DMOZ Entries for VRML. Moving Worlds Guide, making sense of VRML. MeshMart, The VRML Update. Bob Crispen's VRML page. French VRML resources. Working Groups: External Application Interface. VRML/MPEG4 liason. Universal Media Library (UML). VRML Script Clarification. Textures and Multiresolution. Living Worlds: Multiuser VRML. DIS-Java-VRML, Distributed Interactive Simulation. comp.lang.vrml newsgroup.

		Specs & Courses
		VRML 97 Specs. The Annotated VRML97 Reference Manual online version. The VRML Cheat Sheet in PDF and Gzipped PostScript. Local copy of the SIGGRAPH'96 Introduction to VRML 2.0 course. Courses and Tutorials: SIGGRAPH'97 VRML course : Authoring Compelling, Efficient VRML 2.0 Worlds. Interfacing Java and VRML. The VRML Primer and Tutorial. Taming VRML Scripts. VRML Gems. VRMLScript Specification (local copy). VRML/Java/Javascript FAQ. External Authoring Interface (EAI). EAI Specs. FAQ. Working Group. Examples. Cosmo Player COM EAI SDK. VRML'97 Proceedings online. IBM's VRML Compressed Binary Format.

		Browsers
		Gregory Seidman's Browser Implementation Summary. Cortona. Cosmo Player by SGI. WorldView by InterVista. Community Place, VRML by Sony. Browser::VRML, a free Perl/Java/OpenGL based VRML browser. KWRL, A VRML 2.0 Viewerfor KDE. CASUS Presenter, writen in Java. GLViewer.

		Tools
		3D File Format Convertion: bsp2wrl, is a program to convert Quake levels into VRML worlds. Performer to VRML, convert the 40 file formats that performer can read to VRML 2.0! Crossroads 3D, a Windows freeware 3D file format translator. Lighting and Texturing: Texture Mapping in VRML. VRML Illumination Comparison. Pellucid: VRML 2.0 shading model applet. VRML 2.0 Rendering Revealed. David Roussel's VRML Material chooser (à la Inventor material chooser by SGI). ImageToSFImage Converter. VRML Rotation Calculation Utility (a life saver!). VRML Rotation Calculator. Viewpoint Creator. VRML Debugging and testing: NIST VRML Testing. VORLON, a command line java application which validates the format of VRML 2.0 files (was called vrmllint). VRML Debugging. VermelTrap, a GNU VRML Scenegraph Debugger in Java. A VRML Performance Meter. CHISEL, world processor. Some free software by Bob Crispen (including pnmtopix, dem2wrl, ...). SkyPaint, 3D panorama paint tool. Terrain Visualization and Flyby Animation with VRML export. Gregory Seidman's VRML Extrusion Creator.

		Misc
		OVAL, the Open VRML Advancement League. VRML Ready 3D programming libraries: Potential Resources for developing a Sample VRML 97 Implementation. OpenWorlds, An open platform for VRML 2.0 integration. VRML 2 editor and programming tools. JVerge, A Free VRML 2.0 Node VRML 2.0 Parser. Java Class Library. In3D by Visible Decisions. VRaniML, by Great Hill Corporation. Activate, by 3DWeb. Information pages: VRML 4 Linux. The vrmLab. VRMLlion. WEBLYNX : The Ultimate Virtual World Library. Focus on VRML by the Mining Company. Graeme Bennett's VRML pages. Special Edition: Using VRML, by Stephen N. Matsuba and Bernie Roehl, Que Publishing. Proposed extensions: Adding regions to VRML by Bernie Roehl. VNET, a VRML chat program, with custom avatars. Requires only a VRML 2.0-compliant browser.

		VRML Worlds
		You must see these : DC - Virtual Real-Estate. Formax Virtual World. The Construct Archive. Radical VR. Great Backgrounds made with SkyPaint. The Miller Project, a virtual library of significant historical buildins in their original form. Glasgow Project. Usefull PROTOs and Widgets : Martin Reddy's very usefull VisibilityInline and QuadLOD nodes. A NURBS prototype. Rich Gossweiler VRML2 worlds and widgets. Gregory Seidman's VRML2 Widgets. Braden's protos. VRML Prototypes by Visible Decisions. VRML applied to Distributed Engineering. The VRML Ring. Kahuna's list of worlds. David Roussel's MathZoo. Irish Space. Kahuna's models. Geometrek, free online interactive games puzzles and contests. Ligos Technology VRML Gallery. Kinetix VRMLOUT 3D Studio MAX Plug-in Beta 4 Demos. The UK VR-SIG 3D Object Archive. 3DName3D's Free VRML Worlds. OCNUS VRML Models. Jason Mathews' VRML Models. The Monkey's Funky VRML Repository. Eurocopter Simulation. A Tribute to Chesley Bonestell (Space Art).