Re: Supposed VRML files

Kevin Goldsmith ([email protected])
Fri, 26 May 1995 10:56:37 -0700 (PDT)

> PLEASE don't hang our dirty laundry out for all the world to see. Putting
> an innocent author up for ridicule by including his or her home page into
> your personal black list is mean spirited and doesn't help ANYONE. It
> does, in fact, tell the world that we are divisive group who can't behave
> ourselves.
>
I disagree, check out some of the worst of the web pages. I can
see the dog list as a good natured way of getting people off their butts
to fix their pages. The language on his page seems light hearted enough.

> IvToVRML has a problem, it leaves the nearDistance and farDistance fields
> in a camera, as well as a couple of other things. This is a bug which
> will be fixed in the next beta, not a blatant attempt by SGI to take over
> VRML! I have seen several authors change the header on an IV file to VRML
> and call that VRML. Making these authors into criminals will only serve
> to scare off those who really want to jump start VRML.
>
I don't beleive that anyone in the Inventor group has any desire
to take over VRML. I sometimes wonder about SGI marketing and corporate
though.

> WE MUST PLAY NICE OR THE WORLD WILL IGNORE US...
>
Chris, any healthy community has dissent. It is necessary for
open minded discussion. "Playing nice" isn't in anyone's interest.

Kevin

P.S. sorry I'm so silent, been berry berry busy...