Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)

Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
Standard for description of 3-dimensional interactive worlds
• export and exchange format for all major modelling systems
• e.g., CAD systems for describing single objects
History
• development started in Mai 1994
• to be used in the WWW
• versions:
• VRML 1.0
• VRML 2.0
• VRML 97
(outcome of VRML 2.0 ISO/IEC standardization with few minor extensions)
„Worlds" are described in
• ASCII Files
• (File extension .wrl, or .wrz for compressed represantation)
• combining primitives and describing their dynamics and interactions
• MIME type: model/vrml or x-world/x-vrml (outdated)