Title :
Web based VRML modeling
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Twente Univ., Enschede, Netherlands
Abstract :
Presents a method to connect VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) and Java components in a Web page using EAI (External Authoring Interface), which makes it possible to interactively generate and edit VRML meshes. The meshes used are based on regular grids, to provide an interaction and modeling approach that uses the internal semantics of such a mesh by linking the available modeling operations to either single vertices, the vertices of a ring or column, or all the vertices from the VRML mesh. Our method permits strict mesh complexity control and scales the operations according to the mesh properties. We describe the structure of the system and provide a few examples of the meshes that were created
Keywords :
Java; application program interfaces; authoring systems; information resources; mesh generation; subroutines; virtual reality languages; EAI; External Authoring Interface; Java components; VRML mesh editing; Virtual Reality Modeling Language; Web page; World Wide Web-based VRML modeling; interactive mesh generation; internal semantics; mesh complexity control; modeling operations; operation scaling; regular grids; vertices; Computer science; Java; Joining processes; Prototypes; Smoothing methods; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Web pages; World Wide Web; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualisation, 2001. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1195-3
DOI :
10.1109/IV.2001.942119
