Scale units.

Mitra ([email protected])
Sun, 28 May 1995 11:12:42 -0700


Tony,

Looking over the latest version it is missing any specification as to what
coordiantes mean, and any Scale.

Several people at a meeting I was at expressed surprise, they understood
that there was an understood scale (1 meter per unit?), if this was an
omission could we put it back in, its going to make a big difference if -
when we start moving to VRML2 - that we can't do things like portals
because at the viewing site, we don't know - and can't find - the scale of
the viewed site.

There are several other things we can't do, like scale a view relative to
an observer, use common objects etc, if this isn't clear in the spec.

- Mitra

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