Introduction to VRML 97

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Table Of Contents

Introduction

Building a VRML world

Building primitive shapes

Building text shapes

Transforming shapes

Controlling appearance with materials

Grouping nodes

Naming nodes

Introducing animation

Animating transforms

Sensing viewer actions

Application examples and hands-on time

Building shapes out of points, lines, and faces

Building elevation grids

Building extruded shapes

Binding colors to coordinate-based geometry

Application examples and hands-on time

Mapping textures

Lighting your world

Adding backgrounds

Adding fog

Adding sound

Controlling detail

Controlling the viewpoint

Controlling navigation

Sensing the viewer

Introducing script use

Writing program scripts with JavaScript

Creating new node types

Application examples and hands-on time

Controlling how textures are mapped

Controlling shading

Providing information about your world

Writing program scripts with Java

Miscellaneous extensions

Where to find out more