Re: Finally!

D. Owen Rowley ([email protected])
Wed, 21 Jun 1995 04:53:09 -0700


At 10:18 AM 6/16/95 PDT, Jeff Sonstein wrote:
>[email protected] (Vassilis Bourdakis) writes:
>>I've don> a lot of work
>>in ACAD and 3DS and I want to use
>>buildings/objects I've designed and share them to the rest of the world
>>(or whoever cares that is...)

>IMHO if I have to use
>to convert it into the language it's going to be served up in, then I
>think I am doing something wrong...

Do you use have you ever used a credit card where the recipi>nts account is
credited with some other curr>ncy than US dollars?

You're example *DID* use whats happening in this WWW-MIME-URL-CGI-VRML-etc tokens(curr>ncy) smooshing the differences fairly frequently as I

>I think we are at the
>of work from the
>expression. It is good that there are conversion tools out there (thanks
>folks!), but I want to be able to express what I envision in the
>higher-level language it will >nd up in... s>nding billions and billions of
>little triangles to a cli>nt to repres>nt a simple shape is *not* my idea of
>elegance in programming;

What the web and each of the that co-operation pays off and specialization limits payoff.

I believe that what we will see in the future is an organic growth pattern
to the process.

>>(I have to say that under NT, WebSpace is by far better than WorldView...
>>Will be looking for the next beta though)
>>
>
>What I like about WorldView is that I just installed it and it just
>*worked*... both on my NT Server at work and on my Win machine at home. I
>cannot say the same about WebSpace.

I browser stuff out of the of speach when expressing my personal judgem>nts. -heres an example:
(my favorite place to find info about E-Prime is in Robert anton Wilsons
book Quantum psychology.)

>Enough babbling, I just wanted to put in a couple of plugs for reasonably
>elegant files rather than billions and billions of little triangles...

coo-uhl.

I'd like to put in a plug for frequent weeding of the process.
old dead undergrowth of heritage systems and backward compatible
cyber-filler {usually masqueraded as ballast!} can *multiply* the inelegancy
of baby-VRML.

I think this is the crawling stage, but I got that feeling its gonna
get up and run real soon now !
:-)

LUX ./. owen

D. Owen Rowley - [email protected] - http://tcc.net.org/~owen
Organ Grinder: The Community Company INC. http://tcc.net.org/~tcc
What this industry needs is "people-ori>nted" cyberspace applications.
- Because