See also: Shockwave

Shockwave is a format of electronic file of animations Multimédia (image, its, 3D) intended for the Web and created using the software Adobe Director.

Its extension is *.dcr.

Shockwave animations can be interactive and extremely sophisticated thanks to the language of script Lingo. To reach this type of contents, the visitors of a site must have beforehand equipped their navigator with the Plug-in corresponding.

Shockwave is often confused with his/her little brother Adobe Flash. Shockwave is spread less, it is especially employed for the online games. It is also used to post charts 3D or models, or to more rarely present prototypes of algorithm.

External bonds

• the page of remote loading of plug-in Shockwave
• Shockwave Flash Player Download
• Example of presentation ShockWave3D (automated remote loading)