Graveyard

Some people would put VRML itself in this graveyard. Well, tough luck, all you gravediggers. There are so many new VRML worlds and models appearing every day that nobody can keep up with them. And if, as some of us suspect, a successor to VRML comes along (like X3D), not one minute you spend learning VRML and not one byte of a VRML model you build will go to waste.

So if you'd like to announce the Death of VRML (an annual topic on the www-vrml list since 1995) and the Birth of the Next Big 3D Technology on the Web(tm), please try to do it quietly. The rest of us are having fun and learning 3D.

Here lie some of our favorite links, but we hope most earnestly that they don't rest in peace.

Cyberspace

• Kevin Rattai has a page describing his Virtual Community Project.
• Miriam English's vnet-interest list archive
• The Joint Research Center of the European Commission
• Imaginative's VResources
• WebPool Multi-User VRML
• 3D Ark's paper on human joint rotation limits
• Cindy Ballreich's h-anim examples
• Nancy (1.1 spec)
• John Nikkel's (Ragtimer's) avatars
• Niclas Olofsson's list of avatars
• Beausejour (English, none -- still building)
• Niclas Olofsson's Forest World (English, Deepmatrix)

Models

• 3Name3D's Free VRML Objects (thanks to Cindy Ballreich)
• Mesh Mart's Objects
• Micha Riser's free POVRay objects

Worlds

• Mike Fletcher
• Pioneer Joel
• Eric Mason
• The Vertex
• www3d.com

Do you know where these links have gone? Let me know.