Bibliography - interactive 3D virtual reality environments

Tutorials, References

Best VRML textbook:
Ames, Nadeau and Moreland, The VRML 2.0 Sourcebook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY, 1997.

Examples (but not text) are online at http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/vrml2sbk/cover/cover.htm .

Best online reference: the Annotated VRML 97 Reference

http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~pgerstma/class/vnv/resources/info/AnnotatedVrmlRef/Book.html

Official VRML specification: http://www.web3d.org/technicalinfo/specifications/vrml97/index.htm

Floppy’s Web3D guide (good online tutorial – follow links): http://web3d.vapourtech.com/

Building 3D virtual environments class at Ohio State – seems pretty good.

§ Hompage: http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~pgerstma/class/vnv/

§ Very large index of brief VRML examples
http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~pgerstma/class/vnv/examples/examples.alpha.html

Multi-user tutorial: http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/gperrett/simpleExamples/index.html

Tools:

VrmlPad (VRML editor): http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/vrmlpad

Chisel (optimization of 3ds max vrml exports): http://www.trapezium.com/index.htm

blaxxun VRML Exporter for 3ds max: http://developer.blaxxun.com/download/index.html (some bugs – and deinstalling it requires you to reinstall 3ds max.)

Blaxxun: homepage : http://www.blaxxun.com/

The contact 5.1 releasenotes: http://www.blaxxun.com/developer/contact/3d/relnotes.html

Developer examples: http://developer.base.com/samples/index.html

Contact multi texture documentation

http://www.blaxxun.com/developer/contact/3d/vrml/demo/multitexture/multitexture.html

blaxxun Contact 5.1 download & blaxxun documentation in PDF format (over 200 pages):

http://developer.blaxxun.com/download/index.html

Holger Grahn’s website (creator of blaxxun Contact browser)

Holgers studies site: http://home.snafu.de/hg/vrml/hg/index.html

Examples of VRML worlds collected by Holger: http://vrml.base.com/vrml/worlds.htm

Cybertown online VRML community (Hompage: www.cybertown.com )

Cybertown World Builder’s Guide http://philliphansel.com/

Web3D Consortium Homepage: http://web3d.org/

VRML Repository http://www.web3d.org/vrml/vrml.htm

Other examples

Some Quake -> VRML examples: http://www.blaxxun.com/developer/contact/3d/vrml/quake3/q3.html

A VRML elevator game: http://www.smeenk.com/vrml/elevators/index.html

Virtuality, VRML worlds: http://www.cyberworlds.org.uk/main.php?p=home

Thyme's Techuelife Island: http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/gperrett/contact.htm

Books: theories of dramatic structure in various media

1. VR:
Fencott, Clive. Understanding VR, http://www.fencott.com/Clive/UnderstandingVR/Default.htm

2. Installation Art:
Kabakov, Ilya. Ueber die “Totale” Installation, Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 1995.

3. History of Ideas:
Wertheim, Margaret, Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, WW Norton, NY, 1999 ISBN 0-393-04694-X, pp.30-55.

4. Architecture/Urban Planning:
Philip Thiel, People, Paths, and Purposes, Univ. of WA Press, 1997, ISBN 0-295-97521-0, pp.121-124, 132, 138-141, 178-180, 222-227, 230, 236-237.

5. Music:
Meyer, Leonard, Emotion and Meaning in Music, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1956, ISBN 0-226-52139-7, pp.22-43.