X3D Example Archives: X3D for Web Authors, Chapter 01 - Technical Overview

Course slidesets, videos and the complete Chapter 1 Technical Overview are available online via X3dGraphics.com.

The paper "Computer Graphics Teaching Support using X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors" describes how the example scenes, slides, video and book can be used together to teach and learn X3D.

X3D Scenes Descriptions
Header Profile Component Meta Example Simple scene demonstrating X3D header, profile, component and meta-tag definitions. The component tags raise the support level from Immersive profile to include other components included in the X3D 3.0 Full profile.
Hello Triangle Simplest possible triangle definition. Note that head metadata is optional. Provides interesting comparison to OpenGL definitions.
Hello World Simple X3D example
new Scene *enter description here, short-sentence summaries preferred*

http://X3dGraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01-TechnicalOverview

Current and archived nightly builds and distributions of these examples are also available.

The X3D Resources: Examples page and Savage Developers Guide provide more information about the production of this archive.