Participants in this professional development seminar will learn how to use VRML (the Virtual Reality Modeling Language) to author their own 3-D virtual environments on the World Wide Web. Participants will learn the syntax of VRML, typical usage patterns, ways of avoiding common mistakes, and tricks and techniques for increasing performance and realism. Seminar live examples will illustrate the use of VRML in educational, scientific, and simulation contexts.
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Dave Nadeau is a staff researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), specializes in scientific visualization and virtual reality, and heads up SDSC's VRML research group. He is the author of technical papers on graphics and VRML, is a co-author of two books on VRML (The VRML Sourcebook, and The VRML 2.0 Sourcebook), and authors a column on VRML for Netscape World magazine. Dave has taught courses on VRML, including those at SIGGRAPH 96 and WebNet 96. Dave is the founder and lead librarian for The VRML Repository, the principal Web site on VRML. He was a co-chair for the VRML Behavior Workshop in October 1995, and the VRML 95 conference in December 1995, and is on the program committee for the forthcoming VRML 97 conference in February 1997.
The VRML Repository:
SIGGRAPH 96 Course Materials: The VRML Sourcebook: The VRML 2.0 Sourcebook:The SIGGRAPH 96 and WebNet96 course notes provide an example of the style and content for the WMC seminar's notes: