vrml project

VRML Project

Training K-12 Teachers to use VRML in the classroom

You do not need to know anything about VRML to participate in this training! We only expect that you will be familiar with a computer, the Internet, and have access to a computer in your classroom. You will not create VRML modules during this training, but learn to use pre-existing VRML modules in your classroom.

The term Web3d describes any programming or descriptive language that can be used to deliver interactive 3D objects and worlds across the internet. This includes open languages such as Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), Java3D and X3D (under development) - also any proprietary languages that have been developed for the same purpose come under the umbrella of Web3d. The Web3D Repository is an impartial, comprehensive, community resource for the dissemination of information relating to Web3D and is maintained by the Web3D Consortium.

Beginner's Guide to VRML

http://napier-06.cs.strath.ac.uk:8001/VRML/

Introduction toe VRML

http://www.web3d.org/vrml/tutv.htm

VRML Tutor

http://home.hiwaay.net/~crispen/vrmlworks/tutorials/index.html

Some examples of VRML uses for education are listed below.

You will need a (free) VRML viewer first.

Download one viewer at:

Download Cosmo Player VRML Viewier

Download Blaxxun VRML Viewer

VRML SITE LIST BY SUBJECT AREA

Science: General

http://www.sdsc.edu/discovery/

Physics

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cohoweb/vrml/coho.html

Biology

http://www.biota.org/

http://ovrt.nist.gov/projects/cardlab/vrmlhead.htm

http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/3d/3dinsect.html

http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/paul/vrml2pov/

http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/1999/99images/virtualhospital/liver.html

http://www.bioanim.com/Interactive animated atlas of structure and function

http://bionome.sdsc.edu/ The BioNOME Resource is a

unique web-based repository of

bio-computational models and

observational data supported by

Procter and Gamble and operated by

the San Diego Supercomputer

Center.

http://www.sdsc.edu/pb/Software.htmlCompare3D Download: Compare3D is used to analyze the structure alignment of two or more polypeptide chains. The alignment is provided by the user, and is thus designed as a visual front end to another program. It can be seen in operation from CE a resource that permits you to review and calculate structure alignments.

http://www.sdsc.edu/pb/Software.htmlQuickPDB Try it | View Source | Download | Documentation: QuickPDB permits you to find and quickly review a macromolecular structure looking at interactions between sequence and structure. Typically, once you have located structure(s) of interest you would download then for further analysis using local programs. It is a view option used in the Protein Data Bank (PDB).

http://cl.sdsc.edu/ Finding 3-D Similarities in Protein Structures

http://mice.sdsc.edu/ SDSC's and NPACI's MICE project brings together resources from Molecular Sciences and Interaction Environments in a new approach to collaborative research and distance learning via the Internet.

http://www-itg.lbl.gov/vfrog/Virtual Frog Dissection Kit This site is a interactive frog dissection. COOL SITE. Grades 7-12.

Chemistry

http://www.soils.wisc.edu/virtual_museum/index.html

http://www.webmolecules.com/index.shtml

http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/vrml/electromagnetism/

http://vbl01.chem.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/molda/vrml/vrml.htmThe VRML Molecular Model Gallery

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Nanotechnology/publications/MGMS_EC1/Creon/paper.html

Special Needs

http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/vrml/main.html

http://ovrt.nist.gov/projects/VRMLaccess/

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_Meijer/winvrml.htm

http://www.health.uottawa.ca/vrlab/

Barriers- The Awareness Challenge (Rehabilitation Sciences Virtual Reality Lab )

VRML97 This program uses 3-D computer graphics to depict a virtual grade school. The goal of the program is to teach school children (and their teachers) without a disability, about the structural and attitudinal barriers faced by their peers with mobility limitations. Sitting in a virtual wheelchair, you will be prompted to search different areas of the school and identify both building and bad attitude . Our field testing has shown that the program is effective for increasing the knowledge of barriers for children in grades 4-6.

http://www.villes-3d.com/

VIILLES-3D ( Laurent PRIVAT ) VRML 97 You can visit French historic buildings using vrml 2 technology.

Geology/Earth Science

http://virtual.er.usgs.gov/

Hurricane

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/multimedia/vrml/hurricane/

http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/

Fossils

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/museum/tempexhib/VRML/index.html

Terrains

http://www.geology.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/ITD/genform.cgi?all=on

http://www.ai.sri.com/TerraVision/vrml_sets/set1.shtml