1 VRML As a Collaborative Design Tools For Architectural Students Chris Yeung, John Bradford, Guyver Cheng, Eric So

2 VRML As a Collaborative Design Tools For Architectural Students §Introduction §Project Description §Project Status §Future Direction §Conclusion

3 Introduction §Architecture students often design 3-D objects. § They used to design individually. §Use different software on different hardware platforms. §Hard to present 3-D models.

4 Introduction cont... §World Wide Web is popular. §VRML -- Virtual Reality Modeling Language §Platform independent. §Affordable

5 Project Description §Develop a Web-based application to help architecture students design 3-D models collaboratively. §Use VRML, Java, JavaScript to develop the application.

6 Project Status

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10 Future Direction §Add all not-yet-implemented features. §Lower the requirement for processing power. §Make application more user-friendly. §Carry out testing sessions to collect user responses for the application.

11 Conclusion §Web-based technologies: ¦ VRML ¦ Java ¦ JavaScript can help architecture students in collaborative designs.