VRML can be animated with native code players, or with Java3d for portability to Linux & beyond.
Good, proper ( and portable ) VRML runs on multiple players. New solutions include a new support from Korean companies using Java3d and the code from the popular and still widely used Cosmo Player ( from SGI / Silicon Graphics ), now with new improvements and current ( and future ) support. Cosmo is one of the oldest, most popular, most widely used VRML Players ... and the popular Cosmo VRML player has been updated & reborn ... | Nexternet .. [has] release[d] "PIVORON PLAYER v1.0" | in December 2001. Pivoron Player is based on the | | ___ popular __Cosmo __ Player, ___ | | which currently has the _ largest _ number of | worldwide users in the 3D Browser industry. | | The Player improves upon the Cosmo Player and | fully supports VRML97 and COM EAI | (External Authoring Interface). Nexternet has | also simplified the installation process and | reduced the installation file size for users' convenience. | http://www.nexternet.com/news/pr011220.html http://www.nexternet.com/download/index.html ~~~~ in reply to ~~~~ this bad advice: > > DON'T USE COSMOPLAYER ! > > CosmoPlayer WAS the best VRML plugin in its time. > > CosmoPlayer is dead now... [ note: NOT TRUE ! ! - p.f.] > > But VRML isn't. There are people working to make it alive. > > So help them stop to use and recommend CosmoPlayer! > Use and recommend living software made by living people > for a living VRML ! > > Vincent Gardet > http://www.gardet.nom.fr/vrmlcity/ > > | Vincent Gardet wrote to comp.lang.vrml on Dec. 27, 2001 | http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=a0fhte%24t7k%241%40capella.worldonline.fr Bzzzt ... wrong answer. The popular Cosmo VRML Player has been reborn, The popluar Cosmo Player is now supported by a new company. Please don't repleat the 'there are only two' lie. The VRML standard should be used, and it runs on mulitple players including both Java3d and 'plain' Java. Interactive VRML with Java3d, H-Anim Avatars with Gestures ---------------------------------------------------------- - VRML animated with Sun's VRML Loaders, including H-Anim | http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/sc_java3d_vs_plugin.jpg View 3d VRML worlds with Java3d or the 'new' Cosmo Viewer | iConnecter 3D is a plug-in 3D object viewer. | | It enables you to deliver an entirely new Internet | browsing experience to the end user by integrating | interactive and rich 3D contents into your web site. | | iConnecter 3D is developed with Java technology, | which means it can display 3D data on any platform, | regardless of the OS being used, and also with any | Internet capable device. With iConnecter 3D's small | memory footprints, dynamic 3D objects can be | | displayed on all portable devices, | | bringing the next generation of interactive | experiences to the mobile computing community. | http://sdk.web3d.org/summer2001disk2/viewers/GOMID/index.html http://sdk.web3d.org/summer2001disk2/viewers/GOMID/Demo.zip | GOMID develops 3D-based, next-generation Internet solutions, | [ including multiuser VRML Viewers based on __ Java3d __ ] | providing multimedia and multi-user platforms based on | Java technology. | | GOMID aims to lead the rapidly growing virtual reality and | wireless multimedia market of the Internet community with | its innovative 2D/3D engine technology. | http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/pavilion/listing/G-1703/ | GOMID provides 3D-based next generation Internet | solution, which provides multimedia and multi-user | platform developed with Java technology. | | GOMID aims to lead rapidly growing virtual reality | and wireless multimedia market of Internet community | with its innovative 2D/3D convertible browsing engine | technology, which will be a core of IMT-2000. | http://www.siggraph.org/industry/detail/444.html If anything ... don't bother with Javascript ... for complex animations ... use a modern object-oriented languages like Java & Java3d for your VRML animations. Sun created VRML Loaders for Java3d and they work well, they can be used to animate Web3d H-Anim Avatars ... ( despite the false, misleading, slanderous statements from Aaron Walsh, Justin Couch, Prentice Hall, the NSF supported Center for Human Modeling and Simulation at the University of Pennsylvania and the j3d.org Java3d FAQ ) and the apparent malfeasance of Rita R. Colwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) the Director of our National Science Foundation. cc: Rita R. Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation. cc: Kenneth L. Marty, Inspector General for Investigations, NSF. http://staff.nsf.gov/staffpage.cfm?key=957 http://www.oig.nsf.gov/civilandcriminal.htm | GOMID, the developer of innovative Internet browsers, | has won a National Institute of Health (NIH) contract | to supply the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with | desktop and wireless all-Java browsers. | | The award will help the NLM to meet its goal of wider | and more timely dissemination of information. | | GOMID's iConnecter and iConnecter Mobile, for desktop | and wireless, respectively, will be used by the NLM's | Specialized Information Services (SIS) division for | onsite and remote access to a variety of toxicology | and environmental health databases. | | The new browsers provide an option for integrated | two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) display, | giving doctors or researchers a vastly improved | view of complex images. | http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/stories/story2/0,1072,40542,00.html VRML is animated with Java3d with Java3d Loaders from Sun as I have done, and the Koreans use Java3d for their VRML animations ( as you can see above ). -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator ----------------------------------------------------- "Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard" =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". 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