Virtual Campus of NTU

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Virtual Campus is a shared collaborative VRML model of the real campus of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The Virtual Campus can be accessed from any Internet-connected personal computer running MS Windows and Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.

Software to be installed: BS Contact VRML/X3D
VRML viewer for MS IE and Mozilla Firefox

Short video presentation
Random VRML Scenes of the Virtual Campus
How to make your avatar
Have Fun with FVRML / FX3D
Credits

Upon arrival, right-click on the screen and make sure that you selected Direct 3D hardware acceleration (if available) in Settings/Preferences. A guide to navigation within 3D scene can be found here.

Scenes of the Virtual Campus

How to make your own avatar

You can set the avatar URL in your account profile by selecting one from the list below or searching for them on the web. The avatar file must have an extension *.wrl.

The Virtual Campus avatar library:

00, 0a, 0b, 0c, 0d, 0e, 0f, 01, 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 02, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e, 2f, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37

Some web resources:

http://vrml.alleyweb.co.uk/index.html

http://www.vrprincesskj.com/avatarframe.htm

http://www.chez.com/kiki1/avatars/avatars.htm

If you want to create your own avatar, use Avatar Studio v. 2. With the Avatar Studio you can built your own avatar using the available templates and modifying their parameters. With this software, you may also use a digital photo to make a facial texture of the avatar.

Have fun with FVRML / FX3D and try Interactive Shape Modeling Tool

FVRML and FX3D allow for extending VRML and its successor X3D with practically any type of object’s geometry, sophisticated graphics appearance and transformation by defining them analytically straight in the VRML/X3D code. In contrast to the polygon-based models of VRML and X3D, function-based nodes allow for a great reduction of the model sizes and provide an unlimited level of detail. Also, these nodes introduce to VRML/X3D set-theoretic as well as any other operations analytically-defined by the user.

Interactive Shape Modeling Tool is a part of the Virtual Campus developed to help computer graphics students to understand concepts of functionally-based shape modeling.

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