Multipurpose elements and side effects should be avoided. Characteristics of VRML VRML is capable of representing static and animated objects and it can have hyperlinks to other media such as sound, movies, and image. VRML supports an extensibility model that allows new objects to be defined and a registration process to allow application communities to develop interoperable extensions to the base standard. Conventions used in the specification Field names are in italics . File format and api are in bold, fixed-spacing .
New terms are in italics .