Chapter 8. 3D Websites

 

"The World Wide Web is like the discovery of a new world, populated by the content of our own imaginations"

 
 --Mark Pesce, Co-Inventor of VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) from "VRML: Browsing and Building Cyberspace," 1995

One of the most difficult yet fun creative aspects of 3D web design is to brainstorm for clever metaphors in order to navigate a 3D website. The phrase "think outside the box" does not come close. "Think outside the cube" is a little closer, or beyond that, think outside the fourth dimensional sphere. We are sailing into unchartered and undiscovered cyberspace.

It is a pretty safe bet that 100 percent of your audience would have never seen a 3D website. Even right now, you likely cannot envision ...

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