Internal Report DCA97-001
The facility of access to information in the World-Wide Web (WWW), the expanding availability of information technology, and the recent developments in the handling of multimedia data are all important steps towards a Global Information Infrastructure accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. However, in order to achieve this accessible infrastructure, one should consider the aspects related to efficient communication. Some of these aspects are addressed in this work. A mobile WWW rendering application using VRML is introduced, the related problems are pinpointed, and approaches to overcome them are proposed. As a first result we have developed an application that filters VRML scenes to render only parts selected by the user.
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