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Proceedings of The First Annual Symposium on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML 95), San Diego, California, December 1995.

VRweb: A Multi-System VRML Viewer

Michael Pichler, Gerbert Orasche, Keith Andrews
IICM, Graz University of Technology


{mpichler,gorasche,kandrews}@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at

Ed Grossman
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
egrossma@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Mark McCahill
University of Minnesota
mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu

Abstract:

As VRML becomes the standard for describing 3D scenes on the Internet, many VRML viewers are being developed with proprietary interests or for specific target systems or protocols. VRweb is a VRML viewer providing the same user interface for multiple Web protocols (WWW, Gopher, and Hyper-G) and multiple platforms (Unix, Windows, and Macintosh) and is available as both binary and source code. VRweb source code is copyrighted, but is freely available for non-commercial use, providing a platform for research and experiment. Unlike other VRML viewers available in source code, VRweb does not require additional commercial libraries like OpenInventor or Motif, it is based entirely on freely available software components. A short overview of currently available VRML browsers is followed by a more detailed look at VRweb, including its user interface, multi-system nature, and software architecture.

VRweb: A Multi-System VRML Viewer

VRweb: A Multi-System VRML Viewer [9 pages, PostScript, 1.4 MB gzipped, 14.6 MB uncompressed]