VRwave 0.9

Interactive 3D Virtual Reality Scene Viewer

Authors
Keith Andrews (kandrews@iicm.edu): VRwave project leader
Michael Pichler (mpi@iicm.edu): VRwave X11 lead programmer
Contributed by
Meredith Whyles (mwhyles@merlyn.net)
For more information, visit http://www.merlyn.net/.
SCO "Skunkmom" Sponsor
Ron Record (rr@sco.com)
Obtained from
ftp://ftp.iicm.edu/pub/VRwave/vrwave-0.9/VRwave-0.9-src.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.iicm.edu/pub/VRwave/vrwave-0.9/UNIX/Common-VRwave-0.9-Unix.tar.gz
Restrictions
Refer to the COPYRIGHT and LICENCE files.
Description
VRwave is a freely available browser for 3D worlds and scenes modeled in VRML 2.0 (the latest version of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language). It is being developed by the Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) of Graz University of Technology, Austria, the team who brought you the VRweb VRML 1.0 browser. Visit http://www.iicm.edu/ for information about the IICM.


VRwave 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. For more information on VRwave, visit http://www.iicm.edu/vrwave . The new name VRwave is intended to distinguish the VRML 2.0 browser written largely in Java from VRweb, which was written in C++. In terms of look and feel, VRwave is a direct successor to VRweb. For more information about VRweb, visit http://www.sco.com/skunkware/x11/viewers/ .
Productivity
This program displays VRML 2.0 files for the user to manipulate. When used with a web browser, such as Netscape or Mosaic, this 3D viewer allows access to the increasing number of web sites offering virtual reality content and to the advanced HyperWave servers (formerly known as "Hyper-G"). HyperWave servers represent the next generation web solution for publishing rich hypermedia documents in the Internet's World Wide Web and internal TCP/IP networks. For more information about HyperWave, visit http://www.hyperwave.de/.
Work Planned
None
Documentation
Preliminary on-line help for VRwave is included in the archive "Common-VRwave-0.9-Unix.tar.gz". For additional information, view the VRweb User Guide at http://www.iicm.edu/vrweb/help .
Verification
Run "vrwave filename &" (or "$VRWAVE_HOME/vrwave filename &"), where filename is any VRML 2.0 file. If VRweb (the C++ predecessor of VRwave) is executed, it will automatically invoke VRwave when a VRML 2.0 file is encountered. Both VRML 1.0 and VRML 2.0 files have a file suffix of ".wrl".
Known Limitations
Currently, VRwave for Unix is unable to process VRML 1.0 files. For more information, visit http://hiwaay.net/~crispen/vrml/faq.html#q2.

How to get the source

Visit http://www.sco.com/skunkware/ or ftp://ftp.sco.com/skunkware/src/x11/viewers to obtain a copy of the source in gzip format. To create the executable from the source code (on OpenServer 5.0.4), follow these steps: