Creating a 3D University website with VRML

One of the limitations of HTML websites is that even with high quality and aesthetically pleasing graphics, the visitor still experiences a flat 2D world. A three-dimensional world within a website can provide the visitor with a rich, stimulating and interesting experience. Here we describe how we created a model of our university within a website using VRML. The modeling was carried out using 3DstudioMax and video and still images were mapped onto the models. A number of difficulties had to be overcome in order to success-fully create the 3D website