Transfer time

Nathan J. Strange ([email protected])
Sat, 20 May 95 15:08:57 EST


It seems to me that everyone is going to want detailed and large
virtual worlds.. just the kind that love to eat up bandwidth
for vrml 1.1 how about adding a mime type for some sort of simple
compresion. .wrc files could be this new type.... We could get a lot of
compression just by translating all of the commands into 1 or 2 byte
sequences, chuckin comments and whitespace and making everything binary

This seems (on the surface at least) easy to implement and .wrc files
ought to be much smaller than .wrl files... and a parser to make .wrl
files into .wrc files could be distrbuted...

Just a few musings....

-Nathan