Building 3D Models for the Web Resources

I. Software

	SGI	Mac	Windows
HTML Authoring	Cosmo Create Netscape Editor	Netscape Composer (this link is available only using Netscape Communicator)	Netscape Composer (this link is available only using Netscape Communicator)
2D Image Editing	Photoshop Illustrator Image Convert Media Recorder	Photoshop GIF Convert	Not Available
Sound Editing	Sound Editor Media Recorder	Not Available	Not Available
Movie Editing	Media Convert Media Recorder Media Player	Not Available	Not Available
VRML Authoring	Cosmo World	Ray Dream 3D Ray Dream Studio 5 Poser 2 Bryce Detailer	Virtual 3D Space Builder

II. Books

Ames A, Naddeau D, Moreland J. VRML 2.0 Sourcebook 2nd Edition

This book explains how to design complex objects for your virtual world using VRML; how to use special lightning, viewpoints, and professional raphics techniques to create extremely realistic worlds; how to animate objects in and write scripts for your 3-D world with behaviors.

Bouton, G.D.,Bouton, B., Inside Adobe Photoshop 4

Reference guide to Adobe Photoshop 4

Cornell G., Horstmann, C. Core JAVA

The authors provide us with a comprehensive coverage of all JAVA features.

Roehl, B., Couch, J., Reed-Ballreich, C., Rohaly, T., Brown, G., Late Night VRML 2.0 with JAVA

Uses VRML and Java applications.

Dwight, E., Erwin, M. Using CGI Special Edition.

A complete resource for learning Web development with CGI.

Rodger, L., Matsuda, K., Miyashita, K. JAVA for 3D and VRML worlds 2 Copies

This book shows you how to use the power of JAVA to create movement and interaction in VRML 2.0 worlds.

Lemay, L., Moncur, M. JAVAScript 1.1

An introduction to JavaScript.

Naughton, P. The JAVA Handbook

Everything you need to know about JAVA and Web Programming.

Seaman, P., Cline, J. Website Sound

A comprehensive reference and tutorial for adding live and recorded audio to your website.

Weinman, L. Designing Web Graphics.2 second edition

How to prepare Images and Media for the Web in 2D.

Wall, L., Christiansen, T., Schwartz, R. Programming Perl

Introduction to Programming Perl.

III. Web Sources

• 3D Tutorials

3D Animation Workshop

28 lessons beginning with learning how to make the break from thinking 2D to 3D and building a first simple object. Latest lessons deal with VRML. New lesson added biweekly.

3D Graphics for the World Wide Web: The Basics

Tricks and techniques for preparing 3D graphics for the Web. Uses TrueSpace.

Mark Jeffers 3D Resource Page

More advanced tutorials

• Virtual Reality Modeling Language

• Digital Audio

Introduction to Digital Audio

• Computer Graphics

Moving objects in space: Exploiting proprioception in virtual environment interaction.

Virtual Voyage: Interactive Navigation in the Human Colon.

Design Galleries-A General Approach to Setting Parameters for Computer Graphics and Animation.

Fitting Virtual Lights for Non-Diffuse Walkthroughs.

Adapting Simulated Behaviors for New Characters.

Anatomy-Based Modeling of the Human Masculature.

Modeling the Motion of Hot, Turbulent Gases.

View-Dependent Refinement of Progressive Meshes and Progressive Simplicial Complexes

View-Dependent Simplification of Arbitrary Polgonal Environments

Multiperspective Panoramas for Cel-Animation.

Creating Full-View Panoramic Mosaics and Texture Mapped 3D Models.

The Two User Responsive Workbench-Support for Collaboration.

Video Rewrite: Driving Visual Speech with Audio

Orientable Texture for Image-Based Pen-and-Ink Illustration.

Real-Time Nonphotorealistic Rendering

• Web Design and Publishing

• Examples