Re: HISTORY<-- Waks v. TGS, The Series

Greg Seidman ([email protected])
Wed, 28 Jun 1995 08:03:41 -0400 (EDT)

} >No one doubts that SGI/TGS has had, is having, and will have an
} >important role in *supporting* the early development
} >of VRML-based technologies, of which VRML 1.0 is only one.
[founder virtual monument idea]
}
} Why, we could even <EM>vote</EM> to see who should be included in the
} rotunda. I'd be glad to build the voting p, all I need are 10
} names to get started. One IP address, one vote. Service users are
} out of luck, sorry. The voting p will work similar to (but be more

One IP, one vote? Sure. Right. I have accounts on <he counts on his fingers>
seven clusters of machines. I get seven votes? Oh, wait, they are on
*clusters* of machines. Lessee, three or four accounts only have twelve or
thirteen machines, each machines. Oh, yeah, then there is the Computer Science Dept. account that
has maybe fifty or sixty machines (never counted, I don't really know). I
guess there's also the Engineering account with another 80-120 machines (I
have even li> of an idea how lany of these there are... and I forgot the
CS dept.'s sun3 machines entirely). This give

  • two hundred votes. Oops.

    Ok, so the voting may have to be done differently, but I do like the idea.
    I would also find it highly amusing if the statues/pictures smiled at medium
    detail but frowned at high detail. If one degrad>s during moves (as most
    people prefer and viewers support), as one approaches a founder s/he is
    smiling, but upon arriving one

    } strict than) the bitmap voting section of the chemical subpart of the
    } WWW Viewer Test P (http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/documents/WWWtest.html)
    } or the HTML section site voting example in the HTML subsection. I'd
    } probably make }
    } There are "people" generators for other 3D p } those formats can be converted into VRML.
    }
    } Scott Nelson
    --Greg

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