Re: Back to Basics

Jon Russell ([email protected])
Sat, 15 Apr 95 14:52:57 BST

>The gist of VRML seems to be that, at the moment, only
>those blesses with SGIs and NT based boxes are able to enjoy VRML.
>ALthough I know thast TGS is working on a Win3.1 / 95 browser, what kind
>of power will VRML require to be accessable?

I'm working on a PC VRML viewer that uses RenderWare .. This should run on a
386 with 4MB .. (All be it slowly), remember Mosaic (the first main WWW
browser ? ) started on unix platforms and then spread to the PC and slower
machines ...

Most of the VRML viewers currently being written are using OpenGL ..
(correct me if I'm way off here) .. which is only supported on NT, UNIX etc
.. but soon other viewers will appear using different rendering techniques

I would say IMHO that a fast 486 with a sound card is an 'entry level' PC
now days .. all that's being discussed here (3D sound, animation, etc) will
run on that ... eventually .. when my viewer's complete !!

:-)

Jon.

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Jon Russell. ( [email protected] )
Microcosm Support & Development,
Department of Electronics and Computer Science,
Southampton University, Southampton.
SO17 1BJ England. Tel : +44 (0)1703 594490
http://bedrock.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Jon/