Experimental VRML Page

The VRML Experimental Page

The Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is a language for describing multi-participant interactive simulations -- virtual worlds networked via the global Internet and hyperlinked with the World Wide Web. All aspects of virtual world display, interaction and internetworking can be specified using VRML. It is the intention of its designers that VRML become the standard language for interactive simulation within the World Wide Web.

The Chemist's Bench VRML Entry Way

This link will take you to an entrance way where you can decide where you would like to go in cyberspace.

And My Other VRML Home World Away From Home.

This one was created using the VRML creation utility found on the AEREAL World Wide Web Site. Check it out Today to join over 3,000 people who have created their own Worlds

Example 1

For example, this file contains a simple scene defining a view of a red cone and a blue sphere, lit by a directional light:


#VRML V1.0 ascii

Separator {
    DirectionalLight {
        direction 0 0 -1  # Light shining from viewer into scene
    }
    PerspectiveCamera {
        position    -8.6 2.1 5.6
        orientation -0.1352 -0.9831 -0.1233  1.1417
        focalDistance       10.84
    }
    Separator {   # The red sphere
        Material {
            diffuseColor 1 0 0   # Red
        }
        Translation { translation 3 0 1 }
        Sphere { radius 2.3 }
    }
    Separator {  # The blue cube
        Material {
            diffuseColor 0 0 1  # Blue
        }
        Transform {
            translation -2.4 .2 1
            rotation 0 1 1  .9
        }
        Cube {}
    }
}

Example 2

This is a longer example of a VRML scene. It contains a simple model of a track-light consisting of primitive shapes, plus three walls (built out of polygons) and a reference to a shape defined elsewhere, both of which are illuminated by a spotlight. The shape acts as a hyperlink to some HTML text.


#VRML V1.0 ascii

Separator {
    Separator {       # Simple track-light geometry:
        Translation { translation 0 4 0 }
        Separator {
            Material { emissiveColor 0.1 0.3 0.3 }
            Cube {
                width   0.1
                height  0.1
                depth   4
            }
        }
        Rotation { rotation 0 1 0  1.57079 }
        Separator {
            Material { emissiveColor 0.3 0.1 0.3 }
            Cylinder {
                radius  0.1
                height  .2
            }
        }
        Rotation { rotation -1 0 0  1.57079 }
        Separator {
            Material { emissiveColor 0.3 0.3 0.1 }
            Rotation { rotation 1 0 0  1.57079 }
            Translation { translation 0 -.2 0 }
            Cone {
                height  .4
                bottomRadius .2
            }
            Translation { translation 0 .4 0 }
            Cylinder {
                radius  0.02
                height  .4
            }
        }
    }
    SpotLight {      # Light from above
        location 0 4 0
        direction 0 -1 0
        intensity       0.9
        cutOffAngle     0.7
    }
    Separator {      # Wall geometry; just three flat polygons
        Coordinate3 {
            point [
                   -2 0 -2, -2 0 2, 2 0 2, 2 0 -2,
                   -2 4 -2, -2 4 2, 2 4 2, 2 4 -2]
        }
        IndexedFaceSet {
            coordIndex [ 0, 1, 2, 3, -1,
                        0, 4, 5, 1, -1,
                        0, 3, 7, 4, -1
                        ]
        }
    }
    WWWAnchor {   # A hyperlinked cow:
        name "http://www.foo.edu/CowProject/AboutCows.html"
        Separator {
            Translation { translation 0 1 0 }
            WWWInline {   # Reference another object
                name "http://www.foo.edu/3DObjects/cow.wrl"
            }
        }
    }
}

Browser Considerations

This section describes the file naming and MIME conventions to be used in building VRML browsers and configuring WWW browsers to work with them.

File Extensions

The file extension for VMRL files is .wrl (for world).

MIME

The MIME type for VRML files is defined as follows:

x-world/x-vrml

The MIME major type for 3D world descriptions is x-world. The MIME minor type for VRML documents is x-vrml. Other 3D world descriptions, such as oogl for The Geometry Center's Object-Oriented Geometry Language, or iv, for SGI's Open Inventor ASCII format, can be supported by using different MIME minor types.

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