RE: Clicking for Godot

1998-06-23 Thread John D. DeCuir
The dynamic-geometry problem is probably the #1 issue that will plague VRML in the coming year or so. It completely hampers any sort of large-scale project in VRML, because it imposes an upper bound equivalent to the amount of memory in the end-user's machine (which usually isn't enough). We

RE: Clicking for Godot

1998-06-23 Thread Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Hi Bob: Still on for tonight? The loading and unloading problems will be severe and drive us into the same problems as with IrishSpace where Mars choked the goose only when included in the sequence of the other scenes. For some time into the future, 3D e-lit will be characterized by parsi

Re: Clicking for Godot

1998-06-22 Thread Bob Crispen
Len sez: > I'm not sure we can always smooth over "physical" transitions like > loading a new world. I think one of the lessons learned from VRML 2.0 is that giving the browser rather than the author control over loading and unloading objects is a bad idea. The GeoVRML people are especially sen

RE: Clicking for Godot

1998-06-22 Thread Bullard, Claude L (Len)
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RE: Clicking for Godot

1998-06-22 Thread Jed Hartman
No time for real responses right now (I use that phrase so often I ought to abbreviate it -- Ntfrrrn, sort of a nasal growl), but I wanted to say one quick thing: Len, I love the phrase "the denouement button." I now want to put a big red button in whatever VRML fiction I end up doing, labele

RE: Clicking for Godot

1998-06-22 Thread Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Light, yes, but it fairly points out the problems in Murray's book and experiments in interactive art: too much speculation and too few working examples that are actually compelling. OTOH, interaction is a quality of an environment the enables exchange of control focus. I agree with the as