home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Ian & Stuart's Australian Mac: Not for Sale
/
Another.not.for.sale (Australia).iso
/
fade into you
/
being there
/
Issues & Ideas
/
VMRL
/
Proposals
/
OOGL
/
weboogl
< prev
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-10-01
|
2KB
|
69 lines
[IMAGE] WEBOOGL
An Experiment in 3-dimensional Distributed Hypermedia
BY TAMARA MUNZNER, ED CHI, AND PAUL BURCHARD OF THE GEOMETRY CENTER
WebOOGL is a format for distributing and linking 3- and
higher-dimensional objects across the World-Wide Web, in much the same
way that HTML is used to distribute text-based hypermedia. In addition
to supporting the full geometric power of OOGL, WebOOGL incorporates
the distributed capabilities of the Web in two fundamental ways:
1. You can combine multiple WebOOGL objects from different locations
on the Web into a single scene through inlining.
2. You can hyper-link a WebOOGL object to any sort of document on the
Web, including:
+ another WebOOGL object, which will either be embedded into
the current scene, or serve as a new scene;
+ an HTML document, which will be displayed using an external
viewer such as Mosaic;
+ or (in the future) an action script, which will cause
programmed changes to the scene.
In the WebOOGL implementation demonstrated here, links are followed
using a right mouse click. The system provides visual feedback while
downloading is in progress by flashing the color of the sky. Repeated
retrieval of the same object is fast due to caching.
_________________________________________________________________
A Guide to WebOOGL
* What You Need to View WebOOGL
* Example: Linked WebOOGL Worlds
* Example: Visualizing Webspace
* How to Make Your Own WebOOGL Files
* The Geometry Center WebOOGL Repository
_________________________________________________________________
A general discussion of proposals for bringing 3D to the Web can be
found on WIRED's VRML Forum. For more neat WebOOGL examples, see
Yoshiaki Araki's geometry page in Japan.
_________________________________________________________________
Geometry Center Home ... Up to Previous
The Geometry Center
University of Minnesota
1300 South Second Street, Suite 500
Minneapolis, MN 55454