Re: hyper-g

[Peter Seitz <SEITZ _at__ bzs.tu-graz.ac.at>]

On 02 May 1995 23:09:00 +0200
   inbib _at__ everex.han.de (T"ons B"uker) wrote:

>     Ah, Hyper-G jetzt auch auf inetbib :-)
>     Auf dem Developer's Day  der  WWW '95 in Darmstadt klang
>     an, dass die 'Macher' von Hyper-G (anwesend waren  Keith
>     Andrews  und  Frank  Kappe) zusammen mit den Server-Ent-
>     wicklern vom  NCSA  Hyper-G-Features  in den NCSA-Server
>     integrieren wollen (leider habe ich das nicht vollst"an-
>     dig  mitbekommen  -  Volunteer - aber die URLs zu Themen
>     des D-Day sollen noch  auf  dem  Server des IGD erschei-
>     nen).
>     Ich  pers"onlich  kann nur sagen, dass sich bei den Gra-
>     zern momentan anscheinend recht viel tut.  Es lohnt sich
>     vielleicht deshalb mal einen zweiten Versuch mit Amadeus
>     zu unternehmen.

Amadeus ist sehr anspruchsvoll, doch unter Windows NT laeuft er 
mittlerweile einigermassen. Wer sich fuer Hyper-G etwas mehr 
interessiert, bzw. wer eine Installation wagen will, der kann sich in 
der dazugehoerigen Maillingliste einschreiben.

Einfach eine Mail senden an:

        listproc _at__ iicm.tu-graz.ac.at

und im Nachrichtentext die Zeile

        sub hyper-g <vorname nachname>

Kommunikationssprache ist english.

Das ganze ist auf INETBIB zwar etwas off topic, aber ich hab die 
nachfolgende Pressemitteilung deswegen geposted, damit sich jeder 
in dieser Liste ein ungefaehres Bild machen kann wie es mit den WWW-
Browsern weitergeht. Und Interessenten koennen sich ja an die oben 
genannte Kommunikationsliste wenden. (Mailaufkommen ca. 10-15/Woche).

------------------ forwarded Mail follows --------------
From: Keith Andrews <kandrews _at__ iicm.tu-graz.ac.at>
To: Multiple recipients of list <hyper-g _at__ iicm.tu-graz.ac.at>
Subject: ANNOUNCE -- VRweb VRML Browser Project


Dear Hyper-G Community,

  As first announced on Developer's Day at WWW'95 in Darmstadt, a
joint effort between IICM, NCSA, and the Gopher team at the University
of Minnesota has been established to develop a VRML 3D browser (based
on the Harmony 3D Scene Viewer for Hyper-G) which will work with
Hyper-G, WWW, and Gopher clients, and which will be made available in
source code form for non-commercial use. We hope to have a first
release out by the end of June 1995.

  Please see the attached joint press release,

    regards,
                   Keith Andrews.


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Keith Andrews                              kandrews _at__ iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
IICM
Graz University of Technology                   Tel: +43-316-832551-37
Schieszstattgasse 4a                            Fax: +43-316-824394
A-8010 Graz
Austria                            "There are no kangaroos in Austria"
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--- begin  Press Release

GRAZ, Austria (26th April 1995) - IICM, home of Hyper-G, NCSA, home of
Mosaic, and the University of Minnesota, home of Gopher, today jointly
announced the development of VRweb, a new three-dimensional Internet
browser based on the emerging VRML standard for 3D objects on the
World-Wide Web.

The Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), is a non-proprietary,
platform-independent file format for 3D graphics on the Internet,
based on Silicon Graphics' Open Inventor file format. The three
cooperating institutions endorse the VRML standardisation process and
support efforts to make VRML applications widely available.

The VRweb viewer is based on the Harmony 3D Scene Viewer for Hyper-G
and is designed to work in concert with popular World-Wide Web
browsers, such as Mosaic and Netscape, as well as Hyper-G and Gopher
clients. It allows users to interactively explore 3D models of
objects, virtual worlds, and complex 3D visualisations and follow
hyperlinks embedded in them. In conjunction with the Harmony client
for Hyper-G, VRweb also supports interactive hyperlink creation in 3D
models.

VRweb will be made available in source code form (copyrighted, but
free for non-commercial use), complementing forthcoming commercial
VRML browsers and providing a platform for research and experiment. A
first release of VRweb is scheduled for June 1995 for UNIX platforms
and shortly thereafter for Windows NT.


IICM, NCSA, and the University of Minnesota, all non-profit
organisations with considerable experience of Internet information
systems, make natural partners. The VRweb VRML browser is the first
joint project between the three institutions.

The Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New
Media (IICM), part of Graz University of Technology, Austria, is home
to Hyper-G, a multi-protocol (WWW, Gopher, Hyper-G) Internet
information system, which integrates hyperlinking, hierarchical
structuring, sophisticated search, and information management
facilities into a single, tightly-coupled environment. Hyper-G has
supported 3D models and navigational facilities for several years.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), a unit of
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is dedicated to
advancing leading-edge technologies in information and high
performance computing and communications in academia and industry. The
center receives major funding to support its research from the
National Science Foundation, the Advanced Research Projects Agency,
NASA, corporate partners, the State of Illinois, and the University of
Illinois. NCSA is developer of the popular Mosaic Internet browser and
the most widely used WWW server, NCSA httpd.

The University of Minnesota is the home of Internet Gopher, a
distributed document search and retrieval system which combines
structured navigation and full text searches. The Gopher team
recently released Unix and Macintosh GopherVR clients to provide a
3D interface to existing Gopher servers. The GopherVR interface
represents collections of documents as 3D scenes to make it easy to
visualize relationships between the documents. VRML is a natural
extension to GopherVR since VRML scenes can be treated as another
type of document in a Gopher heirarchy.

--- end  Press Release

With best compliments

                Peter Seitz
                                          (Faculty for civil engineering)
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