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Scotty's VRML 1.0 Guide
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VRML Presentation | Student
Project Sheet: VRML World Building | IS3:VR
Project | ISRS: International Student
Reality Simulators | Scotty's WAVE
Based on my presentations:
Using VR as a Tool to Teach Design and Mathematics at the
New Frontiers Conference in Toronto, 97.02.21, and Using VR as a
Tool for Education, at the Sharing the Vision Conference in Lancaster
Pennsylvania, 98.03.10, I have created this page as an example of the
possibilities for simple world design. VRML was used in our design classes
to create 3D models of products or environments, and I hope you can see
the unlimited possibilities for using this tool in any educational situation.
My students created a variety of projects
using VRML to model industrial design products, architecture, robotics,
and animated characters for video productions. We formed the International
Student Reality Simulators, (ISRS) to provide VR services to clients.
We welcome your inquiries. We have
created a series of VRML editors and will be looking at providing these
to the public. Our best is simPLE, the Simulator Primitives Language
Editor, by Grade 11 student Steve Bertrand.
(Our company, ISRS,
(International Student Reality Simulators) was presented at the Nortel
Networks Young Entrepreneurs Showcase in Ottawa April 26, 1999. See us
in a webcast at www.thebusinessedge.com.
(Go to Video Vault, Special Events, Nortel Young Entrepreneurs
Showcase, Ottawa, ISRS (St. Peter High School). The student created
ISRS pages
are now online...great job by the '99 crew!)
Our major project, CS4: The Canadian Student
Space Station Simulator, featured an offshoot project called IS3:VR,
the International Student Space Station: Virtual Reality, with the goal
of modeling the International Space Station (ISS), and eventually creating
an interactive environment for global chat. If you are interested in working
on this project, please email me at mascott@igs.net.
Scotty's VR Shack...
(Note: VRML 1.0 sample worlds and code
guide will be included as long as most viewers will still view them. There
is no guarantee that newer versions will eliminate this feature. Many
of our worlds featured Live 3D's SpinGroup or the "filmstrip" face imaging,
but are no longer valid, for example.)
NOTE: The key sites:
Free Cosmoplayer plugin is available through Computer Associates at www.cai.com/cosmo/.
Long live VRML!
CosmoPlayer, alternative site
www.karmanaut.com/cosmo/player/
List of all VRML software available, the VRML Repository
www.web3d.org/vrml/vrml.htm
GlView, and Blaxxun browsers
www.snafu.de/~hg/
VRML Works...all kinds of useful tips
home.hiwaay.net/~crispen/vrmlworks/
Sandy Ressler's About.com VRML Site
web3d.about.com
Some Experimental Samples: (VRML
1.0)
- Primitive test, basic shapes,
basic file
- Simple triangulated cube, using
coordinate points, and indexed faces
- 3 axis view, arrows illustrating
the 3 axis in 3D
- Sub, example scaled axis
- Turbine, that's turbine, not turban..
- Lightbulb, use it to light your
worlds!
- Pencil, well, a big pencil...
- bottle, made with VR
Pottery
- Chess Pieces and Pottery, made
with VR Pottery
- LOD model, demonstrating LOD trick,
borrowed from Mark Pesce's CD
- Sun, Earth and Moon, example
hyperlink world
Some of My Student's Early Work:
(VRML 1.0)
- St. Peter's logo, our school logo
on cubes, used spin groups
- Space Station, St. Pete's Design
student's vision of 2001 space station, used spin groups
- Jupiter Station, St. Pete's
Design student's vision of Jupiter space station
- Space Station, St. Pete's
Design student's test space station module
- Space Station 2, St. Pete's
Design student's test space station module
- Robot 1, one of our Virtual
Robot projects, by J. Smith and M. Logarta
Some Experimental Samples: (VRML
2.0)
Please note: the following examples have
been used by our students to learn the code. They are from the industry
bible VRML 2.0 Sourcebook, by Ames, Nadeau, Moreland. (Publisher John
Wiley and Sons, 1997, ISBN 0-471-16507-7)
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Torus, example
of extrusion
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Tree, example of
transparent textures
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Vault, illuminated
vault ceiling
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Student Work: (VRML 2.0)
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Asterix,
simple interlocked cylinders, example of axis rotation
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Spinner,
spinning posts, stand back!
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Lava Lamp,
Steve Bertrand's animated blob lamp, let the 60's happen!
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Cartoon Guy,
a character who looks like it ain't a good day
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Mars Base,
Ryan Kampman and Tristan Dumochel's Mars base, featuring a Pathfinder
rover, and inside the dome, a robot arm that will blow you away.
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Robot Arm,
a model for the Canadian Mobile Servicing Platform to be built for
the ISS. A study of controls, heirarchy and degrees of freedom.
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Flower
Patch, an animated flower patch, click on a flower and stand back!
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Ryan's Castle, student
Ryan Kampman's castle, with touch sensors, LOD nodes, inlining, and
other tricks.
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The Solar
System, (new textures 99.07.10). Students Ryan Kampman and Tristan
Dumochel create the whole solar system for your wonderous pleasure.
Features new textures by Tristan and orbiting moons and planets. Select
any planet's view to see its respective viewpoint on the rest of the
system.
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Trippy Techno Room,
VR expert students Ryan Kampman and Tristan Dumochel create a hippy-dippy
psychadelic room, complete with a sound system in the corner. These
student's been at the computer too long! Warning, may cause headaches
and nausea!
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VRML SITES TO VISIT..
Get your viewers and editors....
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VRealm, for the
VRealm browser and editor
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Rendersoft,
an excellent editor for VRML 1.0 and 2.0
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UltraEdit,
a great shareware text editor for Windoze
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VR
Potter, create meshes with this DOS program
Check out the key personalities...
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3D
CAFE, get your free VRML parts...a must visit
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Cicada, a must
see for VRML 2.0 worlds, animations, Java
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Learn how to do it yourself....
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