摘要 : Placing bets on one technology over another is risky; however,there are some guiding lights. The Web is here to stay. It offers a wayof sharing and presenting multimedia information to a worldwide set ofinteractive participants. T... 展开 Placing bets on one technology over another is risky; however,there are some guiding lights. The Web is here to stay. It offers a wayof sharing and presenting multimedia information to a worldwide set ofinteractive participants. Therefore, any technology tied to the Web'sdevelopment is likely to change modeling and simulation. The tremendousinterest in Java for doing simulation has taken a firm hold within thesimulation field. Apart from being a good programming language, itsfuture is intrinsically bound to the coding and interaction within abrowser. VRML, and its X3D successor, represent the future of 3Dimmersing environments on the Web. Model handles and their accompanyingobject groups will remain invisible unless requested by those with amodeling bent. The modeling approach presented takes a substantialdeparture from existing approaches. That is the modeling environment andthe object environment merge seamlessly into a single environment. Thereisn't a difference between a circle and a house, or a sphere and ateapot, Furthermore, objects can take on any role. This frees themodeler to choose whatever metaphor agreed upon by a certain community.There is no single syntax or structure for modeling. Modeling is both anart and a science; the realization that all objects can play roles takesus back to childhood. The Rube modeling environment is being built inthe hope that by making all objects virtual we can return to free-formmodeling of every kind 收起