What is VRML?
{{Infobox file format |name=VRML |icon = |logo = |screenshot = Apartment.png |caption = Apartment ground plan in VRML. |extension = {{plainlist| *<code>.wrl</code>&nbsp;(plain) *<code>.wrz</code>&nbsp;(compression) }} |_noextcode = yes |mime = {{plainlist| *<code>model/vrml</code> *<code>x-world/x-vrml</code> *<code>application/x-cc3d</code> }} |_nomimecode = yes |type code = |uniform type = |magic = |owner = |released = |latest release version = 2.0 |latest release date = |genre = [[3D computer graphics]] |container for = |contained by = |extended from = Labyrinth |extended to = |standard = [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC]] 14772-1:1997 |url = {{URL|www.web3d.org}} }} '''VRML''' ('''Virtual Reality Modeling Language''', pronounced ''vermal'', or by its initials, known before 1995 as Virtual Reality Markup Language) is a standard [[3D|3-dimensional]] (3D) interactive [[vector graphics]] [[file format]] designed for the [[World Wide Web]]. It has been succeeded by [[X3D]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Is a 3D web more than just empty promises? |author=Paul Festa and John Borland |work=CNET News.com |date=May 19, 2005 |url=http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39199121,00.htm |access-date=May 7, 2020 |archive-date=November 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112200449/http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39199121,00.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==VRML files== VRML uses [[text file]]s. The [[vertex (geometry)|vertices]], edges, surface colors, [[UV mapping|UV-mapped]] [[texture mapping|textures]], [[specularity|shininess]], [[transparency (optics)|transparency]] and more of a 3D [[polygon]] can be specified.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.web3d.org/x3d/specifications/vrml/VRML1.0/index.html |title=Version 1.0 Specification |publisher=Web3d.org |access-date=2010-02-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.martinreddy.net/gfx/3d/VRML.spec |title=VRML Version 1.0 Specification |access-date=2018-11-27}}</ref> [[Graphic