Re: Several (still) unresolved issues

Jeff Sonstein ([email protected])
Tue, 13 Jun 95 08:55 PDT


Eric Van Hensbergen <[email protected]> writes:

>I think trying to express terms using levels of behavior is a bit
>confusing. I think an easier way of putting it would be to say that
>there exists an "agent" which controls the "behavior" of an entity.
[...]
> using negotiation techniques. This gives
>a coherent representation of the entity to the entire network, which might
>not necessarily be the case if a behavior script ran on every client's
>system.

this is an interesting conceptualization, and helps move the discussion from
the realm of rendering to that of interactivity... desireable for the next
major rev of vrml (or something like it)...

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