VRML Buzz Words & Concepts

As I attempt to wrap my tiny brain around Virtual Reality Modeling Language, I find that it helps me to makes lists of buzz words and concepts. (Besides I really like the cool jargon.) On the off-chance that anyone else might function in a similarly strange manner, here is that list. If you have suggestions to add to the list please do. Dale Kirby

Alphabetical List of Components of VRML with Version number:
AsciiText	1.0
Background	1.1
Cameras	1.1
CollideStyle	1.1
Cone	1.0
Coordinate3 	1.0
Cube 	1.0
Cylinder	1.0
DirectedSound	1.1
DirectionalLight 	1.0
ElevationGrid	1.1
Environment	1.1
farDistance	1.1
FontStyle	1.0
GeneralCylinder	1.1
Indexed Line Set	1.0
IndexedFaceSet	1.0
Info 	1.0
input fields	1.1
LOD	1.0
Material 	1.0
MaterialBinding	1.0
MatrixTransform 	1.0
NavigationInfo	1.1
nearDistance	1.1
Normal	1.0
NormalBinding 	1.0
OrthographicCamera 	1.0
PerspectiveCamera 	1.0
PointLight	1.0
PointProximitySensor	1.1
PointSet	1.0
PointSound	1.1
Prototyping	1.1
Rotation 	1.0
Scale	1.0
Separator 	1.0
ShapeHints 	1.0
Sphere 	1.0
SpotLight	1.0
Switch 	1.0
Texture2	1.0
Texture2Transform 	1.0
TextureCoordinate2	1.0
TransformSeparator	1.0
Transform	1.0
Translation 	1.0
VolumeProximitySensor	1.1
WorldInfo	1.1
WWWAnchor	1.0
WWWInline 	1.1
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OpenDoc compliance 	
3-D stereo support	
hierarchical tree-structures 
collision detection
dynamic world scene viewer                     
virtual space
Separators                                                 
Frames
Leaves                                                        
behaviour nodes 
transformation hierarchy                           
LOD Level of Detail
cell based visibility algorithms
proximity sensor
script node
Content developers
browser developers
radiosity solutions
cells and portals technique
single user behaviors 
multi-user behaviors 
higher level geometric primitives 
multi-media / streaming data 
terrain
collisions 
local object origins 
scaling up 
restricted hierarchy 
composibility 
billboards
sprites
user space objects 
URNs
mutability 
inter-object communication 
optimizability 
extensibility 
encapsulation 
multiple root nodes
Metalocation

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(Updated Dec 31, 95)