Craig-Y-Ddinas -- Fortress Of The Fairies

Based on Welsh and Arthurian Legends. Welsh legends have it that it was the last home of the fairies in Wales before they were driven out by the Baptists. Also Arthur and his knights rest here waiting to rise up and drive the English from Wales

VRML features include a tree, plant and butterfly PROTOs. Waterfall is animated and LODs are used to hide distant objects to improve rendering.

The Tower

Inspired by Dolwyddellan castle in Wales but moved from its mountain environment to Puffin Island off the north coast of Wales. Screen captures from this world featured on the cover of the Proceedings of the Web3d 2005 Symposium

VRML features include a seagull PROTO that provides 18 animated seagulls that are animated only when visible. Background sound of the sea and gulls

Make and Break Harbour

A 3d chat world inspired by the song 'Make and Break Harbour' by the late Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers

A VRML exercise in creating a more realistic foggy atmosphere than the simple VRML fog node. The fog PROTO developed from Roland Smeenk's array PROTO

Victorian Christmas

Created as a Christmas chat world from thoughts about Dicken's Christmas Carol and the poem a Night Before Christmas

VRML features an animated clock that tells time, animated fire place, Play and Load sound PROTO for partial recitation of 'The Night Before Christmas', and mistletoe that triggers messages to the blaxxun 3dchat system

A Secret Garden

Inspired by lines from a Gordon Lightfoot song : "Some say he was a sailor who died away at sea, Some say he was a prisoner who never was set free ..."

A small enclosed romantic space ... technically designed to show that VRML worlds do not have to be a mass of large files. Total: 132Kb ... VRML:34kb, Textures: 98kb. As to what its all about ... feel free to draw your own conclusions :-)