I must admit not being that impressed with the commercially oriented VRML viewers: in either being too slow or crashing too often. One I do like (cannot trace the original web homepage) is VRWeb for Windows from Graz University of Technology, Austria. Very fast and easy to use. Is a version with the GSAS software sites: ftp://ftp.lanl.gov/public/gsas/ms-dos/ http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/ccp14/ftp-mirror/gsas/public/gsas/ms-dos/ Lachlan. Armel wrote:
Paul May wrote:
The first Molecule of the Month for the new millennium is, appropriately, DNA, and is available in all four versions (HTML-only, Chime, Java and VRML).
The VRML version contains a quite big file (1.3Mo) which may discourage users to download.
One tip about big VRML files :
The best (?) VRML viewer, Cosmo Player, is able to read gzipped VRML files. The compression factor is generally better than 10:1.
The trick is to apply gzip : gzip *.wrl
This produces a series of *.wrl.gz filles which you may rename as *.wrl (suppressing .gz). Those files are read directly by Cosmo Player (and may be other VRML viewers, but I don't know exactly).
If you want to recover the original files, rename all those compressed files as *.wrl.gz and un-gzip them by : gzip -d *.wrl.gz
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