MIDDLE STREET SCHOOL 3D
The 3D model will load automatically if you have the Viscape plug-in already installed on your PC, if not see the section below on 'Downloading Viscape'.
When the model has loaded, you will find that you are standing on a cloud looking down on the school. If you move forward you will drop down into the Nursery playground. When you have landed use the controls to tilt your view upwards a little - you will be able to see where you are going more easily!
Try clicking (or dragging) objects in the model - you should be able to play with many of the things in the model (if the click of the balls in the Newton's cradle annoys you - you will find the control panel next to it that will pause the balls and/or switch sound off). If you manage to find a 'secret panel' and click on the mysterious floating globe you will be transported to our 3D Statue Park.
On our school intranet - there are links that take you off to other 3D rooms/worlds (for example to an art gallery displaying children's work, to a bulletin-board for children to post reviews of books and films, etc); at the moment these links are not connected on this internet version.
In case you have trouble viewing the 3D school here are a few static pictures of the school and statue-park.2D-PICS
3D MODELS ON OTHER WEB-SITES
Once you have installed Viscape try -
a model of the Mary Rose
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drive a
virtual submarine
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DOWNLOADING VISCAPE
To move around our playground in 3D you will need to download Superscape's Viscape plugin; this requires a Pentium PC with 32+MB RAM and Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT 4. You will also need Internet Explorer 4 (or above) or Netscape Navigator 4 (or above).
Download Viscape from our site here.
This could take about 30, 15 or 7 minutes for 33.6K, 56K or 128K ISDN respectively. After downloading VISCAPE SVR to a suitable location, double click the icon to install VISCAPE SVR. Netscape users will need to leave their browsers before installing Viscape and restart Netscape after the installation. NB Netscape 6 seems to have problems with this plug-in.
