This card is a 'still' taken from a VRML animation. To see the full animation, click on the card. BUT:
You will need a VRML browser and some fairly good 'kit'. The animation was produced on a 450 MHz PC with a Matrox 200 graphics accelerator card with a sound card and VRML browser supporting general MIDI (SB16 and CosmoPlayer 2.1.1)* Even this produces very jerky movement {I am looking forward to the coming GigaHerz processors and parallel processing graphics cards - if I could ever afford them!}
Each figure in the model, being based on the Humanoid Animation Group's "Specification for a Standard Humanoid", is capable of individual movement. i.e. it can be programmed to walk or dance. I have, however, not yet progressed so far and it is doubtful if my current machine would produce an acceptable result. For an example of what can be achieved have look at Nancy by Cindy Ballreich.
Click here to download a self-extracting
compressed file (104 kbyte) containing all the components of
xcard.
For the uninitiated:
When the xcard.exe file arrives, disconnect from the Internet and
double-click the .exe file to extract the contents. Then
double-click the xcard.wrl file to run xcard locally.
* Cortona, now my preferred browser, and, according to report WorldView 2.1 (the Vrml browser provided now by MicroSoft), also work. Cortona, which is free, can currently be downloaded from http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortona/