VRML

Plane of an apartment designed in VRML.

The Virtual Reality Modeling Language or VRML is a standardized file format that has as objective the representation of three-dimensional interactive scenes or objects designed particularly for the web. It is used by means of commands in English, which add and determine the characteristics.

The VRML language makes it possible to describe a scene made up of 3D objects from prototypes based on basic geometric shapes or structures in which the vertices and edges of each three-dimensional polygon and the color of its surface are specified. VRML also makes it possible to define 3D multimedia objects, to which a link can be associated so that the user can access a web page, images, videos or another VRML file on the Internet every time they click on the graphic component in question.

The Web3D Consortium was created to develop this format. Its first specification was published in 1995; the current functionally complete version is VRML 97 (ISO/IEC DIS 14772-1).

VRML is the base on which X3D (Extensible 3D Graphics) has been developed.