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Dateline: 11/15/00

It's the day before Thanksgiving Day (a big holiday in the USA) so happy holiday to all the US readers! This is what we call a nobrain article ;-) Recently I started a glossary for Web3D terms. Please send me your suggestions for terms you're interested in seeing. The terms are organized alphabetically but here the terms are organized into a series of functional areas. Let's looks at them:

Computer Graphics
3D Coordinate System
3D Interface
Avatar
Backface
BSP
Color Model
morph
multitexture
NURBS
polygon
rendering
scene graph
spline
Virtual Human

Graphics and Web Systems
Inventor
mocap
parser
plug-in
User Interface
VRML Browser
WIMP

Standards
BIFS
ISO
MPEG4
VRML200x
W3D
Web3D
X3D

Virtual Reality
Cyberspace
HMD
HUD
Virtual Reality

VRML
EAI
Event Model
H-Anim
Interpolator
Inline
LOD
node
proto
sensors
VRML
WRL

Enjoy the Glossary and send in your suggestions via email or better yet post em to the forum.

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