VRML 2 Sourcebook X3D Examples Archive, Chapter 22

X3D Example Archives: VRML 2 Sourcebook, Chapter 22 - Background

Figure 22.3c Background Sky Ground Mountains

Background nodes describe groundColor and skyColor gradients on the ground hemisphere and sky sphere. Background nodes can also apply panorama images on a panorama box. Of interest is that the viewer can look around and navigate, but never get any closer to the background. Backgrounds are faster to draw than if you used shapes to build them.

These X3D scenes are adapted directly from the original VRML 2.0 Sourcebook chapter examples. Also available: Introduction to VRML97 SIGGRAPH98 course notes.

4 X3D Scenes		Scene Descriptions
	Figure 22.1 Background Sky Sphere	A sky sphere with multiple colors.
	Figure 22.2 Background Sky Ground	A background with multiple ground and sky colors.
	Figure 22.3c Background Sky Ground Mountains	A mountain-panorama background created with the color and pixel transparency parts of a mountain image.
	Figure 22.4 Background Binding	Backgrounds bound and unbound by touching a red cube or a blue sphere.

Online at http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Vrml2Sourcebook/Chapter22-Background

Master source code archive is under subversion control at
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Also available: current and archived nightly builds and distributions of these examples, all published under an Open-Source License.

The X3D Resources: Examples page and Savage Developers Guide provide more information about the production of this archive.