Inroducing VRML 1.0

Description: as an introductory exercise to VRML 1.0, students were asked to modify a dome they created in a previous exercise and add some basic VRML functionality to it. All the geometry was created either in AutoCAD or in FormZ. Students then used the VRML 1.0 syntax directly add the VRML functionality.

The minimum requirements for this assignment were:

• use of the Level of Detail (LOD) node to display at least two versions of the dome one with less detail maybe use a half sphere and the other with the full detail.
• use of different files to store the VRML data and the interactions. The dome should be in a file called dome.wrl. You should load the geometry stored in this file into another WRL file called domevrml.wrl using the WWWInline node.
• use of at least one html and at least one VRML hyperlink to other files you create (maybe the box or the tetrahedron files) or anywhere else on the Internet.
• use of at least two light sources
• use of at least two camera positions.

Last updated: 05/11/98 by [Samir Emdanat].