Scene description language

A scene description language is any description language used to describe a scene to be rendered by a 3D renderer such as a ray tracer. The scene is written in a text editor (which may include syntax highlighting) as opposed to be modeled in a graphical way.

Some scene description language may include variables, constants, conditional statements, while loops and for loops.

3DMLW and X3D are XML-based scene description languages. The Tao Presentations application uses XL as a dynamic document description language.