VRML Flythrough

VRML, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language, was developed in order to add a third dimension to the information you access on the World Wide Web. If you want to learn about VRML, start by visiting the VRML Repository at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. We have created a simplified version of Global Warming World that you can explore if you have access to a VRML viewer. Most VRML viewers can be set up to run inside of Netscape's Netscape Navigator or Microsoft's Internet Explorer. When run inside of a web browser, we refer to the viewer as a plug-in. The most popular VRML viewer for the PC or Macintosh is called Live3D. If you are using Netcape Navigator or Internet Explorer to read this document, go ahead and visit the Live3D Website. From there, you can download the Live3D VRML viewer and then come back here to open up the VRML model of Global Warming World.

Click on the following link once you have a VRML 1.0 compatible viewer ready to use. Refer to your viewer's documentation for information on how to move around a virtual world. With Live3D, you can just choose the walk mode and use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move.

Click Here to Open the VRML version of Global Warming World

To see Global Warming World framed within a Java applet you still need a VRML viewer. Java can send messages to the virtual world once the world has finished loading on your computer. The following link will take you to a Java applet where you can raise or lower the sea level in Global Warming World.

Click Here to Open Global Warming World with VRML and Java

If you like our simplified, VRML 1.0 version of Global Warming World, you may want to download it once and then load it from your local hard drive. To do that, use your browser to download every file in our VRML subdirectory and then load the gwwmoves.wrl file locally using your browser. Global Warming World is less than 75KB (kilobytes) in its entirety so it won't occupy much of your hard drive.

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