9 Examples

See also: General Index Pages. There are many worlds/object indexes and I can't keep track of them ! Also note that classification is somewhat arbitrary.

• The VRML Repository at Web3D

9.1 The EAI Interface

• Proposal for a VRML 2.0 Informative Annex - External Authoring Interface Reference
• EAI Working Group
• SGI's Creating Interactive Java Applications with 3D and VRML (Tutorial sort of paper)
• VRML 2.0 EAI FAQ (external Java Interface). In case this link is dead, we have a copy (good version I hope).
• Asia simulation and newer society versions (ASIA = Artificial Society of Intelligent Agents) Including downloadable code), ok on 9/2000

9.1.1 Larger Worlds

• VRMLgate , A VRML webring, some nice examples
• Soccer Virtual System (SVS) (has problems on Cosmo/Irix)
• InterActive Physics World from Cicada. See their VRML page for other stuff. READ the instructions first.
• The Frank Project A tool for vrml programmers, in order to include a human in their worlds. (Nice project, Cosmo 1.0 only ?).
• The Mincom Minescape Demo demonstrates the power of VRML 2.0 as a platform for complex business visualizations. Read the Technical Discussion . Other examples are available at Oracle's VRML Cartridge Home Page.

9.1.2 Navigation

• "Descent Navigation" (found in the EAI page at SGI). Shows how to program navigation buttons and keys in an applet. We do have a version locally

9.1.3 Visualization

• Cooperative Agent System for Knowledge Discovery in Heterogeneous Information Ressources
• PellucidVRML 2.0 shading model applet, Not just a good demo, will also teach you about VRML colors and shading. ( Pellucid, Cosmo 1.x version)
• Some projects by Markus Roskothen use the EAI, e.g. an animated BarChart or Interactive Control of a Robot.
• 3D Topographic Maps with Dynamic Color Legend by Augustine Su
• Tetrahedonism TetraHedonism uses computer graphics as a creative medium per se :)

9.1.4 Authoring

• Sanbaso Keyframe Animation System.
• The VRML Extrusion Creator! by Greg Seidman.
• TestExternal Reverse Authoring :) ... a simple demo that shows how to extract nodes from a scene. See also VermelTrap (TODO).

9.1.5 Games

• On an alien Moon very nice world, only addition to this list in month or years :)
• Crazy Eights 3D (not tested)
• Tic-Tac_Toe (Small example)
• warbird

9.1.6 Education

• Tomaz Amon's VRML Biology Page. State of the art visualization ! (well alive in 9/2000)

9.1.7 Experiments

• Visual Encoding of Environments

9.1.8 To be processed

• Aliens3D - is a simple multiuser world
• Michael Paulitsch's VRML Examples have some good EAI stuff.

9.2 Examples with Java/VrmlScript or Java Scripting

9.2.1 Sites containing examples

• The VRML Repository
• Fornax (http://vrml.fornax.hu/vrmllist)
• VRMLSite Magazine - VRML Java VRML more VRML and VRML Virtual Worlds 3D Virtual Reality (http://www.vrmlsite.com/)
• Hoang-Anh Virtual Worlds (VRML) (http://clement.info.umoncton.ca/%7Esissi/index.html)

9.2.2 Animals

• Elephant: Various Viewpoints to look at an elephant and a handler to move its trunk. (In the Reaction and Interaction Section from SGI's SigGraph 97 VRML course)
• Bouncing Hueys: Move little persons and see the bounce for a while. (In the Reaction and Interaction Section from SGI's SigGraph 97 VRML course)

9.2.3 Navigation

• Desert FoldUp: Click on a book that opens and move viewpoint into the scene. (In the Reaction and Interaction Section from SGI's SigGraph 97 VRML course)
• The Dungeon of VRMLGame implemented in VRML 2, only works with Cosmo 1.01 ??. Very good example that shows VRML's potential for gaming. (used in the Navigation Section from SGI's SigGraph 97 VRML course)
• Elevator Demo A real elevator with buttons, various viewpoints. See also this author's other examples and widgets. (In the Navigation Section from SGI's SigGraph 97 VRML course)

9.2.4 Visualization

• Wind Tunnel by Tom Kaye: You can move a wing in a tunnel, see forces and hear soundeffect. Nice use of proximity sensor to build a control panel. See also his other examples and widgets
• Medical Visualization in VRML 2 by Chris Thornborrow : Plan Selector moving though a head and showing cuts on a "TV screen".

9.2.5 Various

• The Heart Hotel (http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~student/yorbClass/Web/hotel/)
• The Fish doesn't think. The Fish knows .... everything (http://vrml.fornax.hu/aqua/)
• A railway model (http://vrml.fornax.hu/train/)
• Flowers and Butterflies (http://www.deanmoor.nl/users/roland/flowers/flowers.wrl)
• Chess play (http://www.digitalwizards.com.au/VRML/)
• FMWORLD: VRML (http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/fmworld/v_land/e/index.html)
• 2d intro page (http://www.construct.net/projects/ntt/about/)

9.3 Javascript Code Generation Examples

• Adrian's Grapher (VRML 1.0 !!)
• Object Creation by Yasuyuki Suzuki (VRML 1.0 !!)
• Javascript VRML Builder at Orbitor.
• Alpha VRML Plot by Plotr Gawryslak.

9.4 Other nice "Worlds" (Scenes)

• Transports An architecture / arts program, interesting and alive (9/2000)
• http://www.familiartales.com. A site with VRML for five-year olds :)
• Virtual real-estate. See the scientific universe.
• Tele Experiments (participe as a subject)
• Virtual Reality in Statistics Visualize your Data on-line with VRML I (part of the GASP project.
• Flook (The famous animated cartoon from SGI, of course it's a dead link, please send mail to SGI and complain !).
• A railway model (among other nice things, features a control panel)
• Walking Salamander (interpolators, sensors and vrmlscript)
• Melinda Rackham's online multiuser VRML world got the Sound-Space Award http://www.filmwinter.de 2001.

9.5 Other/ Various

• VRML II Test Suite at NIST the (US) National Institute of Standards (under construction, March 97).

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