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Figure 6.15
Supplementary information access
thus to be easily accessible by the general community. It could also be used at meetings to
support collaborative decision-making deliberations (Cartwright
et al.
, 2004).
VRML was chosen as a development tool as it allowed open, extensible formats to be used
and the 'built' worlds could be constructed in web browsers that included a VRML plug-in.
VRML is an extensible, interpreted language and an industry-standard scene description
language. It is used for three-dimensional scenes, or worlds, on the internet. To produce
three-dimensional content two-dimensional components are defined/drawn and the view-
point specified. Once this is defined the drawing package renders the three-dimensional
Figure 6.16
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