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VRweb 1.3 available in outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jered@MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 17 18:24:29 1996
From: jered@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:23:40 -0400
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
(Oops, misspelled software-announce before...)
VRweb version 1.3 has been installed in the outland locker for Linux,
NetBSD, Irix, Solaris, SunOS and HPUX. To run the scene viewer:
add outland; vrweb
VRweb should automatically work if you use netscape on Athena. However,
you can also follow these instructions. Add to the file ~/.mailcap:
For Netscape:
x-world/x-vrml; vrweb -URL '%u' -remote %s &;
For NCSA Mosaic:
x-world/x-vrml; vrweb -mosaic -remote %s &;
Enjoy!
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
VRweb 1.3
=========
VRweb is a freely available browser for 3D worlds and scenes modeled
in VRML (the Virtual Reality Modeling Language). VRweb is a joint
project between IICM, home of Hyper-G, NCSA, home of Mosaic, and the
University of Minnesota, home of Gopher.
VRweb is the only free VRML browser available in full source code,
which does not require commercial packages such as Inventor or Motif,
and which will run on (almost) any Unix or Windows platform.
New in release 1.3:
o AsciiText/FontStyle support
o automatic normal vector generation (by P. Zemljic)
o optional BSP rendering mode (by G. Meszaros)
o harscened: interactive link creation and relative URLs
o proxy support (for inlines/textures)
o korean User interface (partially; see FAQ-Unix).
o FreeBSD and Linux/ELF binaries
o quadrics complexity (slices) configureable;
faster rendering in special cases,
more robust normal vector calculation
Release 1.3 is now available for Unix, including source code.
The current windows version is still VRweb 1.1 Beta 5.
More information can be found at the VRweb homepage:
http://www.iicm.edu/vrweb
Note the spelling of VRweb: it is VRweb and *not* VRWeb !
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