Week 1

• 3D Viewers: Cosmoplayer (Win/Mac/Irix), Cortona (Win/Mac/WinCE), Blaxxun (Win), Shout3d (Win/Mac/Linux?), OpenVRML (Linux/Mac/Irix/Win).
• Reference: The Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual, VRML Cheat Sheet, The VRML97 spec
• Links: About 3d (Sandy's Site), VRML repository, Web3D Consortium, Rev. Bob's Site

Examples

VRML Static Nodes:

• Header: #VRML V2.0 utf8
• WorldInfo Node
• Surface Basics: materials and appearances
  
• Geometry: prims, lines, polys, text, elevation grids, extrusions
  
• Surfaces: Color, Textures, Transparency, Normals
  
• Transformations: basic, hierarchy
  
• Lights: directional, point, colored, scope, attenuation
  
• Fog (from The Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual)
  
• Shadows and Reflections ("Boink" from SGI Course)