VRML
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VRML stands for Virtual Reality Modeling Language. VRML is a 3-D, graphical programming standard for the Internet that allows programmers to build 3-D environments or Web sites that users can visit and navigate through, almost as they would in real 3-D space.
The VRML standard was initiated in Silicon Graphics' 3-D graphics modeling program, Open Inventor. An independent standards committee chose Open Inventor as the foundation for the VRML standard. VRML 1.0 is a subset of the Inventor File Format (ASCII) with some additions to allow linking to the Web and further URLs.
Like HTML, VRML is not a programming language in the strictest sense; at least, not what programmers refer to as a "compiled language" in which the programming code can issue instructions directly to the computer without the need of an intermediary program, or interpreter. Instead, VRML code consists of descriptions of 3-D scenes along with the expected behaviors of those scenes based on the actions of the user. The VRML code is written in plain text or ASCII format, like HTML.
Netscape Navigator is able to view VRML files.
The main functions are:
