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Title
International cooperation and technology transfer
Author
Mussio, Luigi

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These files and the photographic textures are generated by
modelling and rendering procedures inside programs like
3DStudio MAX 2 (the most recent upgrade is R2.5) (Peterson,
1998).
Their visualisation demands the availability of a browser both
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and VRML (Virtual
Reality Modeling Language): it is therefore necessary to add a
plug-in to the traditional web browser. Cosmo Software, a
company of the Silicon Graphics, produces Cosmo Player, a
eraphical browser useful to navigate through 3D "scenes" (fig.
1, on previous page). Its 2.1 release presents meaningful
improvements in the phase of rendering: a base package is
already included in the latest version of the most known
browsers (Hoffman, 1998).
In such a way the WWW is becoming more and more similar to
the real world, i.e. interactive, continuous and three-
dimensional: the second generation of the World Wide Web is
becoming a reality. Specific tools can today support the
creation of web sites and their management: for the
experimentation here described the Microsoft FrontPage
program has been used. Both releases 97 and 98 support all the
operating phases without demanding a specific HTML
programming knowledge. In particular, FrontPage 98 allows the
user to take advantage of the new performances for animation
provided by HTML release 4, the dynamic HTML (DHTML).
So, the most expert developer can satisfy his requirements
(Karlins, 1998).
The necessary functions are in fact available in order to plan
and create quickly a web site; the program (for Windows 95 or
NT) supplies both FrontPage Explorer, to build and manage a
web site, and FrontPage Editor, to realise and modify web
pages in HTML language.
Particularly, FrontPage Explorer has options to create, visualise
and present web sites; it allows the generation and modification
of hypertextual connections, the I/O of text and image files and
anything else requested for a web construction.
FrontPage Editor, instead, is the tool for WWW document
making which offers the possibility to analyse interactively
each page, like a word processor. All the HTML code is
automatically provided by this procedure that also gives the
support for an advanced programming through small applets in
Java. Java is an interpreter language (object-oriented), proposed
from Sun Microsystem for the creation of interactive web pages
in Internet on whichever platform.
FrontPage software is well integrated into the family of Office
applications.
3. THE HARLEQUIN WEB SITE
The site, built during the study, is related to the historical
settlement of Oneta, located in high Brembana valley (small
town of S. Giovanni Bianco) not far away from the city of
Bergamo. Its central nucleus, between history and legend,
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