RE: Coordinate System?

Jan Hardenbergh ([email protected])
Wed, 03 May 95 12:44:00 E


> Tardis works like this.) For example: imagine a floor plan, at the middle
> of which is a space the size of a closet. As you walk through the space in
> VR, and enter the closet, you discover a Basketball court inside.
>
> What does this do to the system of coordinates, considering that two 3d
> spaces would then overlap at the same X,Y,Z coordinates? Is there a way
> to express provisional coordinate systems, dpending on which part of the
> space you are in? How about coordinates relative to a certain local point
> of reference, such as the center of the room, or the entry doorway?

We touched on this in chat last night. I think the metaphor will be a room,
or for the formal, an office, or for those aging hippies, a "space." Each
space will considerate itself the center of the universe.

One will hyperlink to another, but that could mean being handed off to a
different coordination agent. Coordination agents will decide who is in
the space and what sorts of "data stream URLs" need to hook up to.

The quesiton you are asking (interpretted by me) is, How do the
meta-coordinators work? If I say I want to be at X, Y, Z and there are
difference spaces competing for that location, what happens? That probably
depends on what space server you ask, no? I wish Mark would rewrite the
Cyberspace protocol paper. (& sample code :-)

-Jan