Re: ANNOUNCE: fractal VRML p

MR LEEMON C BAIRD III ([email protected])
Wed, 28 Jun 1995 03:05:34 EDT

Chris Marrin [[email protected]] wrote:
>>On Jun 26, 10:55pm, MR LEEMON C BAIRD III wrote:
>> There is now a working fractal VRML p at:
>> http://kirk.usafa.af.mil/~baird/vrml
> This is a very nice proof of concept. Unfortunately it will not
work with
> the MR version of WebSpace, due to a recursive inline loading bug
that was
> not fixed since LevelOfDetail is no longer supported. I don't know
what
> the plan is with WorldView but I would not assume LevelOfDetail
will be
> implemented there.

It's reasonable not to worry about debugging the old LevelOfDetail.
What's the MR version? The last SGI beta that I downloaded works
fine on those examples (though it takes several minutes to download
and render the tree; the Cantor set is a little faster). Is the MR
version a later version for SGI, or is it for a different platform?

It would be better to convert the examples to LOD, but that's only
possible if LOD is changed so that scaling an LOD nod> affects the
distance at which the detail switches. Will that happen soon for
WebSpace? Does anyone know if LOD will work that way in WorldView?
I don't think the spec is clear on the issue, but it seems preferable
for LOD to work that way.

Leemon Baird
[email protected]
http://kirk.usafa.af.mil/~baird

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