The VRML External Authoring Interface

Material resulting from EPSRC Visualization and Virtual Environments Community Club, VRML Day, Wednesday 21 May 1997, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

The Caveats

Some notes about the presentation:

It uses the EAI (there's a surprise!). So it might not work on your machine:
- It include SGI's Tiny 3D demo (which works on many platforms) and a simple demo of my own written for Cosmoplayer3a on Netscape 3.01 for PC.
- Both these example occasionally crash Cosmoplayer 1.02 running in Netscape 3.01S on the Indigo2 running IRIX 5.3 I use at work. It would be interesting for me if your experience is any different.
- Choose the demoless version if you don't think the demos will work .
- The text on the whiteboard doesn't work on any platform I've tried it on, but this is probably my fault. I couldn't test the code since text doesn't work properly on the version(s) of cosmoplayer I am using.
It uses a JavaScript slide presenter I knocked together.
- Again it worked well for PC, but Unix Netscape seems to ignore the request to create an exact sized window and the colours are a *lot* different.
- If all else fails you can load the html files slide1.html through slide17.html
Source code is available.

There is also a three page summary of the talk (html | postscript).

Anthony Steed, Last modified: Thu Jan 13 20:02:18 "GMT 2000