Sun's ECLIPSE

a 3D gimmick

realized with
VRML 2.0 and MP3/WAV Sounds
11.Aug.
1999
eclipse_snap.jpg

page status jan. 2001


Cause all of the 3D VRML players reveal different 3D engines (*), you will find
the following VRML file choices for the same 3D scene for you to
get your desired result:

(*) in 3D scene lightning, alpha texturing, internal scripting, ..


new HINT / Jan. 2008:
please try different 3D-player versions (MP3), no one, except Cosmoplayer, will work perfectly due to
different rendering modes and complexity of the scene with up to 8 light sources
dimmed timely with the ongoing scene.

green button: start
blue button: halt scene
red button: restart

1.a CosmoPlayer 2.1x SGI (orig.), CAI now
MP3 or WAV sound
2.a. Cortona Player > v2.2       Parallel Graphics
   b. Cortona Player 2.1
MP3 or WAV sound
WAV sound
3. a) Contact 4.x       Blaxxun
    b) GLView 4.x     by H. Grahn
WAV sound
4. WorldView 2.1       Platinum's
WAV sound
check your Netscape, IExplorer or Opera Browser for installed 3D Players
3D PlayerCheck
download 3D Players for PC, Mac, Linux e.g Cosmoplayer2.1 (en,fr,de)
3D PlayerList
for some VRML/MP3 informations have a look here at my info_page



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1.a           COSMOPLAYER - WAV or MP3
VRML - MP3
version    (~480kB)
VRML - WAV
version   (~900kB)
COSMOPLAYER is the most widely used 3D browser, more than 20.000.000 downloads. Best sound quality with the MP3 option (needs MS MediaPlayer5.x or another MP3 codec).



2. CORTONA Player v 2.2 -3.x
VRML - MP3
version    (~480kB)
VRML - WAV
version   (~900kB)
a new small and fine 3D graphics engine, reveals an extraordinary good 3D scene reproduction.
Versions 2.2 to 3.x support multiple MP3 sounds within VRML.
MP3 version has superior sound quality (needs MS MediaPlayer5.x or another MP3 codec).



3a. CONTACT
3b. GLView / OpenGL
3c. GLView / D3D
highspeed D3D mono setting has no lensflare effect

high quality D3D RGB setting shows lensflare effect
lensflare effect
looks good here

no lensflare effect


use opt/pref/sound/ no RSX3D sound
VRML - WAV version   (~900kB) VRML - WAV version   (~900kB)



4. WORLDVIEW
VRML - WAV version   (~900kB)
for the time being the lensflare effect is omitted,
displays some inappropiate 3D light setting



  FastCounter  
aug. 1999
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Juergen Koening    © status 1/2001     koening@chemie.fu-berlin.de