A Web browser for LHC design integration

This paper describes i3D, a WWW 3D graphic browser which is currently being developed within the scope of the VENUS project at CERN. i3D allows V R style navigation within the LHC Virtual Prototypes (see abstract 103), loaded over standard WWW protocols from the VENUS server. The user can explore these data models, converted from EUCLID to t he i3D f ormat, and trigger WWW standard hyperlinks by simply clicking on graphic objects. Some of these objects will cause the loading of new 3 D worlds, extending t he concept of hyperlinks to the one of hyperworlds. V ENUS intends to develop *3D's f unctionality and performance i n order to use it as a graphic model browser within the scope of LHC's Engineering Design Integration.