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On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, sconzey wrote:

Nothing you haven't thought up already. :)

I was really quite proud of my caching/inheritance idea as a way to minimize
what the client had to download... I'm not sure you made a big enough deal
of that...

Caching is a sticky issue that we haven't yet addressed. But really it is part of a larger issue of optimizing network utilization by reducing the amount of data that needs to be sent to be able to render a presentable scene. There are many, many different approaches that we can take including streaming objects, area of interest, alternate geometry representations, dynamic client-side generation, adjusting level of detail and on and on. Caching is just one piece of the puzzle (albiet an important one).

These are all related to the issue of scalability. However, I think that at the moment our efforts are better spent at making the system interesting enough, having the right features and used by enough people that the issue of scalability actually comes up. It's silly at this point to spend a lot of extra time writing software that can support 1000 users if only 10 people are actually using it ;-)

Also, flexibility. If we're going to have a library of converters we may as
well use them... So the user wants a dynamic texture? They just create an
animated gif and set it as the texture, or a mov, or ...

That's exactly the kind of ease-of-use we want to have in VOS.

[   Peter Amstutz   ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ]
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