Research on Application of VRML in Virtual City Construction

Author

Fan Wenping ; Shi Yishao ; Peng Zhihong ; Liu Shaotang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Surveying & Geo-Inf., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

25-26 April 2009

Firstpage

598

Lastpage

601

Abstract

To explain how to use VRML in virtual city construction, the authors review main characteristics of virtual city, assess a number of effective programming languages applied on the Web 3D, discuss the basic functions of VRML and the basic frame of virtual world based on VRML, give an application instance of virtual city scene and show a lot of experiences. In the case study, Cortona VRML Client plug-in can be used to display the virtual city, and the roaming can be realized at any angle and in any way by clicking mouse. At last the authors summarize that VRML is the most hopeful language currently to becoming the basic frame of constructing virtual city.

Keywords

simulation languages; virtual reality languages; VRML; Web 3D; programming language; virtual city construction; virtual city scene; virtual reality modelling language; virtual world; Artificial intelligence; Cities and towns; Civil engineering; Computer languages; Displays; Internet; Layout; Mice; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; distributed virtual environment; virtual city; virtual reality; virtual reality modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Artificial Intelligence, 2009. JCAI '09. International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Hainan Island

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3615-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCAI.2009.82

Filename

5159075