Arjo Rozendaal wrote:
Hi George,
I tried flying, and it works a bit like giving away the magic. Like looking
behind a filmset. So for regular people I leave it to "walk". As this gives
the best "city like" feeling. When you fly above it you'll see that it's
actually rather small.
Well that's what I think.
But as this is a special technical club, I made a special version..... ;)
www.arjorozendaal.com/vrmlstad/stadfly.wrl
Thanx for sharing. I really prefer flying to walking as I'm kind of lazy
when visiting VRML worlds.
I'm not sure what I will do with the VRML version later on. At first this
city was designed to play a role in my paintings. But it grew too complex to
handle. It became quite impossible to find new points of view because of
waiting times for redrawing. So I decided to create a simple version to set
up viewpoints and lighting. Then I thought it might be nice for people to
walk around it.
It surely is. You could hide replicas of your paintings in buildings &
link those to more detailed views on HTMLpages. (Surprise, surprise ;-)
....)
Only thing I'm really missing badly - though no task of yours, surely -
is a VRML viewer for Linux; there are some developments using the Java
3D toolkit, but AFAIK nothing that will even realize VRML 1.0.
The Cosmo Player by Silicon Graphics runs under Netscape, but not unter
Mozilla and hasn't been serviced/updated since long (though it was a
finely crafted piece of software) :-( .... If anybody in the group knows
of any WORKING plugin/standalone player for Linux I'd be glad to hear
about it & try my hands on it.
Keep up the good work
Wolfram
