Contents

• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• 1. Starting with VRML
  • 1.1 Introduction to the VRML standard and 3D Graphics
    • 1.1.1 What is VRML?
    • 1.1.2 VRML resources
    • 1.1.3 An introduction to 3D graphics
    • 1.1.4 Producing VRML
    • 1.1.5 Browsers and how to use them
  • 1.2 Basic static VRML
    • 1.2.1 Getting Started
    • 1.2.2 Basic Geometry (Shapes)
    • 1.2.3 Positioning Shapes
    • 1.2.4 Rotations
    • 1.2.5 Defining appearance
    • 1.2.6 Anchors and Teleportals
    • 1.2.7 Text
    • 1.2.8 Exercises
    • 1.2.9 Moving On
• 2. Modularization and Abstraction
  • 2.1 Multiple instances of the same object
  • 2.2 Inlining other VRML files
  • 2.3 Prototyping
    • 2.3.1 Exercises
• 3. Good VRML Style and Performance
  • 3.1 Your first ``real'' VRML file
  • 3.2 Levels of Details
  • 3.3 Good VRML style and performance
• 4. Mixing HTML with VRML
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Mixing HTML and VRML Frames
    • 4.2.1 VRML scenes library
    • 4.2.2 VRML to HTML in a frame
  • 4.3 VRML code generation
    • 4.3.1 VRML Code Generation with Javascript
  • 4.4 Adding and Removing Kids with Javascript
• 5. Introduction to moving, interactive VRML
  • 5.1 The idea
  • 5.2 Introduction to Events, Routes, Sensors and Interpolators
    • 5.2.1 TimeSensors and Rotations with Interpolators
    • 5.2.2 More on Time Sensors and Interpolators
  • 5.3 Introduction to Scripting with Javascript
    • 5.3.1 Touchsensors, ROUTE and Javascript
    • 5.3.2 Dealing with state
    • 5.3.3 Touchsensors, ROUTE, Switch and Javascript
    • 5.3.4 Scripting with TimeSensors
• 6. The External Authoring Interface
  • 6.1 What can we use the EAI for ?
  • 6.2 The very first steps
    • 6.2.1 The application: HTML plus VRML plus a Java Applet
    • 6.2.2 Getting a reference to the VRML browser
  • 6.3 Essential EAI tricks
    • 6.3.1 Getting a reference to a VRML node and writing Event values
    • 6.3.2 Getting a reference to a VRML node and writing Event values II
    • 6.3.3 Reading Events from the Scene
    • 6.3.4 Create Vrml from String
    • 6.3.5 Create, Put and Remove together
    • 6.3.6 Receiving Events from the Scene
  • 6.4 Extracting Information from a scene
  • 6.5 Object manipulation and better Java Widgets
    • 6.5.1 My first slider applet
• 7. Animation and Avatars
  • 7.1 Introduction to keyframe animation
  • 7.2 Building a mini bot
• 8. Appendix
  • 8.1 On-line Tools
  • 8.2 VRML Tools
    • 8.2.1 CosmoWorlds
  • 8.3 VRML II Browsers
    • 8.3.1 Win95
    • 8.3.2 VRML on old SUNs
    • 8.3.3 PowerMac
    • 8.3.4 SGI/Irix
  • 8.4 Field and Event Reference
  • 8.5 Introduction to JAVA with VRML
  • 8.6 Useless stuff (Version History / ToDo List)
    • 8.6.1 Version history
    • 8.6.2 Things to do
  • 8.7 Copyright Information
• Bibliography
• Index