Welcome to VRML:
The Virtual Reality Modeling Language

Where to find information about VRML? Here are two sites you may want to visit:

1. The Web3D Consortium
   It is the best site to find a VRML 2.0 (or VRML 97) Plug-in for your browser: The VRML Browsers or Plug-in's .
   Recently, I have tried Cosmo Player 2.1 on Win98/XP, which can be downloaded from Viveka's COSMO PLAYER MIRROR site.

   After installation, to run VRML with my IE browser from Internet, I have made following file copies:

   • C:\Program Files\CosmoSoftware\CosmoPlayer\npcosmop211.dll
     is copied to: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\PLUGINS
   • C:\Program Files\CosmoSoftware\CosmoPlayer\npcosmop211.jar
     is copied to: C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.0\lib\ext

2. VRUNIVERSE

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My VRML 2.0 Practice

Warning: You must have installed VRML 2.0 Plug-in in your browser

Based on The Bible of VRML: VRML 2.0: sourcebook by A. L. Ames et al

Contents

• Atlas II A (a static model, use VRML browser tools to play with)
• Physics In Virtual Reality
  • Black Hole, Worm Hole and Universe (static models and animations)
  • An Circling Airplane (animation with sound effect)
• Two Airplanes Engaged In Dogfight (animation with sound effect)
• Mouse-Controlled Dogfight of One Plane
• Mouse-Controlled Dogfight of Two Planes
• A Wiggling Snake
• Three vessels acting as three buttons

I. Stable Models (use VRML browser tools to play with)

• Missile: Atlas II A
  Warning: You must have installed VRML 2.0 Plug-in in your browser
  

Atlas IIA

• Black Hole, Worm Hole and Universe (Physics/Gravitation)
  Warning: You must have installed VRML 2.0 Plug-in

  According to Eistein's general relativity, a gravitational filed is just a curved 4D space-time caused by the existing matter. A black hole is a very dense object with such a deep twisted space that is looks like a funnel in a 3D space-time. Two black holes may form a worm hole. I always wonder what if the two black holes belong to different Universes? Here are two static models for you to play with. In our animated model of the Universe, there is a standing wave, whose wave length is increasing (red-shift) when the Universe is expanding, decreasing (blue-shift) if the Universe is collapsing. Because we do see the red-shift, our Universe is expanding. Note the size of black holes (and galaxies) does not change with the universe. It is not sure whether our Universe will be collapsing in the future, because it depends on if the average mass desity of our Universe is greater than a critical value, and scientists are still looking for the dark matter...And if there are other universes connected with ours through worm hols?
  A Black Hole And A Falling Star (animation)	A Worm Hole (static model)	Our Universe: The Big Bang (animation)

  Three Universes, Connected By Wormholes... (static model)

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• An Circling Airplane (Physics/Kinematics; Animation with sound effect)
  Warning: You must have installed VRML 2.0 Plug-in in your browser
  

  A circling airplane Download Here: circle_plane.zip (58K)

1. Two Airplanes Engaged In Dogfight (animation with sound effect)
   Warning: You must have installed VRML 2.0 Plug-in in your browser
   

   Two Airplanes Engaged In Dogfight

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2. Mouse-Controlled Dogfight of Jet-fighters (with both rotation and translation)
   Mouse-over: rotating the plane; Mouse-click-drag: translating the plane
   
   • Mouse-Controlled Dogfight of One Plane
     Mouse-Controlled Dogfight of One Plane

   • Mouse-Controlled Dogfight of Two Planes
     Mouse-Controlled Dogfight of Two Planes

3. A Wiggling Snake
   A Wiggling Snake

4. Three vessels acting as three buttons
   

   Three vessels acting as three buttons, controlling background color and sound

Enjoy VRML!