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| Building Moving Worlds on the Web | |
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| Silicon Graphics Incorporated Staff | |
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| Figures | |
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| Examples | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About This Book | |
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| What This Book Contains | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Related Reading | |
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| About the Aztec Site | |
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| Credits | |
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| The Changing VRML World | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 3D Models versus 2D Images | |
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| Cutting-Edge Technology | |
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| A Brief Look at the Development of VRML | |
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| What's New in VRML 2.0? | |
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| Enhanced Static Worlds | |
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| Interaction | |
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| Animation and Behavior Scripting | |
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| Prototyping | |
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| VRML File Information | |
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| Getting Plugged Into the World Wide Web | |
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| Locating Documents on the Web | |
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| Browser and Server | |
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| Viewing VRML Scenes | |
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| Types of Internet Access | |
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| Gateway Service | |
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| Dial-Up Direct Connection | |
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| Dedicated Direct Connection | |
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| Finding an Internet Service Provider (ISP) | |
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| VRML Browsers | |
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| Creating VRML Scenes | |
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| Publishing Your Work | |
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| Exploring and Building a World | |
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| Exploring Aztec City | |
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| Do-It-Yourself Tour | |
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| Guided Tour | |
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| On Your Way | |
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| The Eagle Lands | |
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| Temple of Quetzalcoatl | |
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| At the Base of the Temple | |
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| Texture Mapping to Add Details | |
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| View from the Top | |
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| Reusing Objects | |
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| Exploring the Shrines | |
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| Traveling through Time | |
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| Building a World | |
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| Creating Objects | |
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| Using External Files: Inline Nodes | |
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| Using Multiple Instances of an Object | |
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| Linking to Other Objects | |
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| Combining Objects into Worlds | |
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| Looking at the Scene | |
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| Interacting with the Scene | |
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| Starting from Scratch | |
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| Develop a Story Board | |
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| Build Objects | |
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| Add Animation and Scripts | |
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| Refine and Test | |
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| Moving On | |
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| Building Objects | |
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| Starting Your Temple | |
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| Transformations | |
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| Translation and the Standard Unit of Distance | |
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| Rotation | |
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| Scaling | |
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| Combining Transformations | |
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| Order of Transformations | |
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| Geometry | |
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| Simple Geometry Nodes | |
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| Irregular Geometry | |
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| Text (Flat) | |
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| Appearances | |
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| Appearance Nodes | |
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| Materials | |
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| Textures | |
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| Prototypes | |
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| Fields Versus Events | |
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| Externproto | |
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| Lighting, Sound, and Complex Shapes | |
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| Lights | |
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| Scope of Lights | |
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| Common Attributes of Lights | |
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| Attenuation | |
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| DirectionalLight Nodes | |
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| PointLight Nodes | |
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| SpotLight Nodes | |
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| Sound | |
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| AudioClip | |
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| Complex Shapes | |
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| Terrain Modeling with the ElevationGrid Node | |
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| Extrusions | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Animation and User Interaction | |
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| Events and Routes Revisited | |
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| The Animation Event Path | |
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| Triggers and Targets | |
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| Timers | |
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| Engines | |
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| Animation Hints | |
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| Scripting | |
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| Script Node Syntax | |
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| How Scripts Handle Events | |
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| Special Functions | |
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| Field Types in JavaScript | |
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| Scripting and Animation | |
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| Locate-Highlighting: A Glowing Skull | |
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| Switching among Choices: The Eagle Has Landed | |
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| Other Fittings | |
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| Logic | |
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| Computed Animation | |
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| Advanced Scripting | |
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| The Browser Script Interface (Browser API) | |
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| Scene Hierarchy Manipulation | |
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| Binding the Browser to a Node | |
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| Network Access | |
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| Multiuser Worlds | |
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| Using Colors, Normals, and Textures | |
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| Colors | |
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| Specifying Colors Per Face | |
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| Specifying Colors Per Vertex | |
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| Lines and Points | |
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| Normals | |
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| Using Default Normals | |
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| Specifying Normals Per Face | |
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| Specifying Normals Per Vertex | |
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| Advanced Textures | |
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| What Is a Texture Map? | |
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| Movie Textures | |
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| Components of a Texture | |
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| Combining Textures, Colors, and Materials | |
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| Specifying Texture Co | |