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Wonderful, thanks!

Is anyone able to offer some advice on how I might be able to take a wrl/vrml file and actually meddle with it in 3D?

Perhaps I'm missing something supremely obvious, but I can't import them into 3D software I have and even simply trying to view them in Firefox results in them being opened in Internet Explorer (using the recommended Cortona3D plugin).

I didn't realise how fundamentally put to rest vrml has become - there's very little by way of new stuff out there on the internets...

Help? :\

- ed

Also, why are the responses in here reported as being 2 hours old, when I distinctly read them yesterday?!

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> Also, why are the responses in here reported as being 2 hours old, when I distinctly read them yesterday?!

You're being gaslighted by the second-chance pool. When a submission doesn't gather many upvotes, but the mods think that it would have fared better if it had been posted at a different time, they arrange for it to be reposted. That's implemented by messing with the timestamps, which can be confusing when you've seen the submission before.

You can see the true timestamp for this submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=interocitors.com and for 3131s's comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=3131s

I wonder how well that second-chance pool works. The visit counter at the bottom of the page is currently at 05247.

It's been interesting watching the upvote count on this. I was the first upvote, then later on once it had fallen off the first page of /newest it still only had a few upvotes and I assumed it would die. Now after the mod intervention it's been hanging around the second and third page of /news for the last day and to my surprise has 37 points.

Since browsing /newest a lot more in the past few months, I've noticed how a single person can have an outsized impact on the visibility of submissions. The first upvote is really crucial, it seems people tend to notice anything with "2 points" or above and then with only a few more upvotes in quick succession a submission will start to get visiblity on /news. One morning a few weeks ago I cast the first upvotes on two separate submissions, and then later in the day both made it to the front page.

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