Re: VRML & USENET * What is VRML?

Paul Lindner ([email protected])
Tue, 18 Apr 1995 08:47:06 -0500 (CDT)


Mark D. Pesce sez:
.
. The expression of behaviors in a heterogeneous multiparticipant networked
. environment is not esentially (or even in part) a computer graphics problem.
. VRML begins (because of its similarity to the ASCII syntax of Open Inventor)
. with its graphics problems *solved*, or mostly so. The networking problems
. are as yet untackled. Cyberspace is not about visualization; it is about
. communication. VRML was invented in order to provide a "front end" to a
. networking methodology I had developed; it's genesis is in networking.

Very true.

. VRML is a networking technology, and is integral to the web, not to computer
. graphics. It was created by the web commmunity for the web community. I
. believe that the right place in the USENET hierarchy is
. comp.infosystems.www.vrml - thus, as we add more web-based features, and
. more non-graphics features (remember, this is not a graphics problem but a
. networking problem) we won't be seen as "hijacking" a newsgroup. And, we're
. much more likely to benefit from the sage advise of people who have strong
. networking chops; something we'll need.

Bzt, wrong. The *only* thing that VRML and WWW share is the use of
URLs. By the same stretch of the imagination we could call the
newsgroup:

comp.graphics.inventor.vrml

VRML is much more inventor than it is HTML/WWW..

My vote goes for comp.infosystems.vrml.

Who wants to be burdened with past efforts. Remember folks, we're
creating a whole new world here.

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