Introduction to Cosmo Player:
  
What is a VRML?
   
     VRML stands for Virtual Reality Modelling Language, which is used to create an interactive 3D models and animations for the Internet.

     Cosmo Player has superseded WebSpace, the first commercially available 3-D viewer, as SGI VRML browser. Cosmo, the first VRML 2.0 browser for the World Wide Web, is freely distributed by SGI, Open Inventor creators. Cosmo Player runs on Windows 95,Windows NT, and IRIX 5.3; it requires atleast 8MB of RAM, a 66 MHz 486 processor, and a 256-color SVGA display system (a Pentium 90MHz is preferable). Some of Cosmo Players abilities include constant frame rates for smooth interaction, spatial audio, and embedded audio and video.

The following guidelines, would help you to operate the Virtual tour :

   The Virtual Tour for the Bronze Gallery has been made in the sense of viewing the Gallery in five different Virtual camera angles, fixed at the Entrance,Right and Left staircase, Ground and First floors corresponding. The tour has been made to view in those angles using two different simple methods. First method could be accomplished, by clicking the right most button, illustrated in the down left hand side. Similarly, its left most button is to go in reverse order of the camera angle. Second easy method, is to click the centre button so that, a drop-down like list box is emerged, as illustrated in the down right hand side image, from which the desired angle can be viewed. The main difference between the two methods is from the first method the view-point can be obtained in the order prescribed, but this factor has been superceded by the second method.

   This Go button, is used to view, in which ever direction the mouse is dragged, when clicked and dragged inside the gallery.

    These buttons are immensely used to hide and unhide the explanation part of the Dash-board buttons. The first button from the top, is used to hide the complete dash board. The second button on clicking, hides the name of the buttons when the mouse is placed on the dashboard buttons. The last button is used to hide the descriptive text given for all the buttons.

   This Slide button when clicked and dragged (as in Go button) will slide in whichever direction the mouse is dragged. The main usage of this button is that the outside view can also be obtained when dragged outside the gallery.

   This Tilt button, is used to view the gallery around without moving by clicking and dragging in whichever directions.

   This Seek button will enable to view the concerned object closely, when clicked on the object.

    These Undo and Redo buttons are similar to that of the normal undo and redo button options.

    The left hand side button is called as Change Control button. On clicking, the buttons are changed as in right hand side illustration. The first button from left is called as Zoom which is used to move the object in front of you closer or farther away.The second button is called as Rotate button which can spin the object in front of you on clicking. The last Pan button on enabling can move the object in front of you in which ever direction clicked.

   The right hand side Preference button is used to change the options as the user wishes on clicking. The options dealt in those tabs can be altered. For example, in World tab, "Collision Detection On"  check-box could be enabled so that the navigation process would collide when we try to move beyond the barrier of the object.