Updating FreeWRL to 1.21.0
On my way in this morning, I was thinking again about scientific visualization, and in particular, VRML. It's an interesting technology that I never got to do a lot of experimentation on at the time of my thesis, but since then, I've thought it would have been a wonderful way to visualize the results of the simulations. Given that I hadn't updated my VRML viewer on OS X in a while, I decided to see if FreeWRL had been updated recently.
Luckily, it had - to 1.21.0.
Interestingly, there now seems to be a vrml.jar that's part of the package, but I can't find a thing on it on the FreeWRL site. Maybe it's something that's in the beginning stages, but what a hoot to have it embed-able in a Java application. Interesting possibilities.
The tests work great on my aging MacBook Pro. Very nice indeed.
UPDATE: I found that there are a few tools for Blender to allow you to import and export VRML 2.0 files. This would be nice if I were creating them by hand, and it's nice to know about. I just need the talent now 🙂