VRML at Vancouver Webpages

Vancouver with Website anchors
Textured cylindrical image of Minoru Park, Richmond
Cylindrical image of Minoru, 2 LODs

These models rely entirely on texture maps made from photographs. The first looks really good in VRweb, but VRweb doesn't handle the LODs in the second so well. Live3D and Cosmoplayer cannot currently display texturemaps bigger than about 64 pixels square, so the quality suffers. The LOD model works properly in Live3D.
While the model itself is small, the images add up. The first totals 360K, the second (LOD) 615K. Rendering the images may take a while. A Pentium with 32M is recommended (an SGI with 512M has no problem ... a 486 with 16M you wait awhile).
HTML version
These were made with a version of mk-cyl2.pl

Simple model of Bowen Island
map2vrml.pl - Convert NCSA IMAP file to VRML
hpgl2vrml.pl - Convert HPGL plotter files to VRML
mk-cyl2.pl - create texturemap cylinder
mk-cyl2.howto - user guide for mk-cyl2.pl
Demo world from map2vrml.pl
Demo output from hpgl2vrml.pl
Network stats (packet loss in 3-D)

Tools and Links

Metadata generator - Generate VRML 1.0, 2.0 and HTML metadata
hpgl2vrml.tar.gzhpgl2vrml distribution
map2vrml.tar.gz map2vrml distribution

VRML 1.0 Specification
VRML Repository - Viewers, Plugins etc.
VRML FAQ
The Easy VRML Tutorial
Graeme Bennett's VRML news
Moving Worlds (VRML 2.0) spec
Texture Mapping in VRML by Cindy Reed-Ballreich - how it's done

Vancouver Webpages
andrew@vancouver-webpages.com