From: gorasche@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at (Gerbert Orasche)
Subject: PROD: VRML viewer
Date: 7 Aug 1995 15:05:02 GMT
Organization: IICM


Dear virutal worlders,

now available:


VRweb 1.0 Beta 3
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VRweb is a browser for 3D worlds and scenes modeled in the Virtual
Reality Modeling Language (VRML). VRweb is a joint project between
IICM, home of Hyper-G, NCSA, home of Mosaic, and the University of
Minnesota, home of Gopher.


New in this release:

*** VRweb for Windows NT, 3.x, and 95; and DEC Ultrix ***

*** source code available for UNIX/X11 and Windows ***

* VRML samples included

* faster Mesa driver under X11:
  flat shading dithered on 8bit, much faster smooth shading

* LOD (level of detail) supported


Supported platforms under UNIX are SGI, SUN OS, SUN Solaris,
DEC Alpha, DEC Ultrix, HPUX, and LINUX.

The supported Windows platforms are Windows NT (OpenGL),
Windows 95 and 3.x (with Win32S).

This release contains source code for both the UNIX/X11 and Windows
version. It can be used without a fee for academic, research, and
internal business purposes - see the COPYRIGHT of the distribution.


You can get VRweb from one of the following ftp sites:

Austria:
  ftp://ftp.iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/Hyper-G/VRweb
  ftp://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/Hyper-G/VRweb
Germany
  ftp://elib.zib-berlin.de/pub/InfoSystems/Hyper-G/VRweb
  ftp://ftp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/infosystems/Hyper-G/VRweb
Italy
  ftp://ftp.esrin.esa.it/pub/Hyper-G/VRweb
Sweden
  ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Networked.Information.Retrieval/Hyper-G/VRweb
New Zealand
  ftp://ftp.cs.auckland.ac.nz/pub/HMU/Hyper-G/VRweb
UK
  ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/Hyper-G/VRweb
USA
  ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Hyper-G/VRweb
  ftp://ftp.utdallas.edu/pub/Hyper-G/VRweb


See the README file of the distribution for further information
like mailing list, mail address for bug reports etc.

You can also visit the upcoming technical home page of VRweb at
http://hgiicm.tu-graz.ac.at/Cvrweb/

cu
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