Viewing VRML files on Ubuntu

[Tom Sparks]

--- On Sun, 2/1/11, Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Viewing VRML files on Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Received: Sunday, 2 January, 2011, 8:59 PM
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to view some VRML (and perhaps X3D) based 3D
> presentations of
> molecules on Ubuntu, but I have some trouble to find proper
> software do
> that. There doesn't seem to be a FireFox plugin for this,
> and other ways
> I tried didn't work either. OpenVRML isn't packaged for
> Ubuntu, and
> FreeWRL was a dead end. Has anyone else been more
> succesfull?
> 
> I'd like to avoid compiling anything (or other "messy"
> things) if
> possible, partly because I don't like messy things myself,
> but also
> because I would like to introduce this to some other
> people, who like
> computers + messy even less than I do. 
> 
> Some pages I visited:
> http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.openvrml.org/
> http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/vbdetect.html
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Ari-
>
 
I have you looked at this list http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/X3dResources.html ?

tom