Re: Implementing quasi-interaction

Brian Behlendorf ([email protected])
Tue, 4 Apr 1995 14:28:46 -0800 (PST)


On Tue, 4 Apr 1995, Andy Norris wrote:
> I've been reading the 1.0 spec, and trying to figure out an interface to use
> CGI to allow a user to "rearrange the furniture." Is there any way to send
> information from a current VRML model to a selected URL other than defining
> every object in variables in the URL when the model is created?

A CGI script could definitely be used to generate a VRML scene (just as
one can create an HTML page) but I think what you're really wondering is
if there's any equivalent to the forms capability in VRML, and the answer
is no (not yet). The problem of interactivity in 3-d spaces is not a
small one, there are many possibilities but no clear solution, though we
will attempt to forge one for VRML as soon as 1.0 is finished up. We
could hamstring ourselves by trying to define some small subset that has
limited functionality, but we need to be as generalized as possible.

Brian

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