Hardware Recommendations:
300MHz CPU clockspeed
8MB Video Card
64MB RAM

The most exciting part of this project involved the creation of a 3D model of the Science Concourse using VRML.  If you have not heard of VRML, it stands for "Virtual Reality Markup Language."  It is a standard for representing 3D models over the web, so we were happy to test it out and see what we could do with it.   Go ahead and test it out yourself.  If the model is too complex for your hardware or if you do not have a VRML plugin installed, take a look at the walkthrough, which compares real scene walkthroughs side-by-side to the virtual walkthrough.

The VRML is approximately 3.8MB in size, so the following download times should be expected:

56K    - about 1 minute
28.8    - about 2.5 minutes
14.4    - about 5 minutes

Enter VRML University (plugin required)

For a simulated walkthrough, click here (no plugin necessary)

Visit the Plugins page

Instructions & Help for navigating in VRML

Our Procedure for generating this model

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